T cell lineage choice and differentiation in the absence of the RNase III enzyme Dicer

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1367-1373

  Cobb, Bradley S ^a,c   Nesterova, Tatyana B ^a   Thompson, Elizabeth ^a   Hertweck, Arnulf ^a   O'Connor, Eric ^a   Godwin, Jonathan ^a   Wilson, Christopher B ^b   Brockdorff, Neil ^a   Fisher, Amanda G ^a   Smale, Stephen T ^c   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE III; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 20844432885     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20050572     Document Type: Article

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