Disruption of the langerin/CD207 gene abolishes birbeck granules without a marked loss of Langerhans cell function

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-99

  Kissenpfennig, Adrien ^a   Aït Yahia, Smina ^b   Clair Moninot, Valérie ^b   Stössel, Hella ^e   Badell, Edgar ^d   Bordat, Yann ^d   Pooley, Joanne L ^g   Lang, Thierry ^c   Prina, Eric ^c   Coste, Isabelle ^b   Gresser, Olivia ^a   Renno, Toufic ^b   Winter, Nathalie ^d   Milon, Geneviève ^c   Shortman, Ken ^f   Romani, Nikolaus ^e   Lebecque, Serge ^b   Malissen, Bernard ^a   Saeland, Sem ^b   Douillard, Patrice ^b  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c U d'Immunophysiologie P   (France)

^d U de Genet Mycobacterienne   (France)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^g WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; H2 ANTIGEN; LANGERIN; OVALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRBECK GRANULE; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; LANGERHANS CELL; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MICROORGANISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; WILD TYPE;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BLASTOCYST; CARCINOGENS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; KINETICS; LANGERHANS CELLS; LECTINS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; LYMPH NODES; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; OVALBUMIN; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 19944395161     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.1.88-99.2005     Document Type: Article

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