Transcription factor IRF4 controls plasma cell differentiation and class-switch recombination

Nature Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 773-782

  Klein, Ulf ^a   Casola, Stefano ^b   Cattoretti, Giorgio ^a   Shen, Qiong ^a   Lia, Marie ^a   Mo, Tongwei ^a   Ludwig, Thomas ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b   Dalla Favera, Riccardo ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAMINASE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; PROTEIN BLIMP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLASMA CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33745182931     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1357     Document Type: Article

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