CD8 coreceptor extinction in signaled CD4+CD8+ thymocytes: Coordinate roles for both transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms in developing thymocytes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3852-3859

  Cibotti, Ricardo ^a,b   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a   Guinter, Terry I ^a   Sharrow, Susan O ^a   Singer, Alfred ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VACCINEX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD2; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034073642     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.11.3852-3859.2000     Document Type: Article

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