A role for the Tec family tyrosine kinase Txk in T cell activation and thymocyte selection

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1427-1438

  Sommers, Connie L ^a   Rabin, Ronald L ^b   Grinberg, Alexander ^a   Tsay, Henry C ^a   Farber, Joshua ^b   Love, Paul E ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Phospholipase C; Signal transduction; T cell receptors; T cells; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD45; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELLS, CULTURED; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033571123     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.10.1427     Document Type: Article

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