Signaling by the kinase MINK is essential in the negative selection of autoreactive thymocytes

Nature Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-72

  McCarty, Nami ^a   Paust, Silke ^a   Ikizawa, Koichi ^a   Dan, Ippeita ^b   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Cantor, Harvey ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIM PROTEIN; MISSHAPEN NCK INTERACTING KINASE RELATED KINASE; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 12344298492     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1145     Document Type: Article

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