The common cytokine receptor γ chain and the pre-T cell receptor provide independent but critically overlapping signals in early α/β T cell development

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 563-573

  Di Santo, James P ^a   Aifantis, Iannis ^a   Rosmaraki, Eleftheria ^a   Garcia, Corinne ^a   Feinberg, Jacqueline ^a   Fehling, Hans Jörg ^c   Fischer, Alain ^a   Von Boehmer, Harald ^a   Rocha, Benedita ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Development; Interleukin; Knockout; Lymphocyte; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0033081225     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.3.563     Document Type: Article

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