RasGRP is essential for mouse thymocyte differentiation and TCR signaling

Nature Immunology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 317-321

  Dower, Nancy A ^a   Stang, Stacey L ^a   Bottorff, Drell A ^a   Ebinu, Julius O ^a   Dickie, Peter ^a   Ostergaard, Hanne L ^a   Stone, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RASGRP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034303371     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/79766     Document Type: Article

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