Extracellular isoforms of CD6 generated by alternative splicing regulate targeting of CD6 to the immunological synapse

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4351-4361

  Castro, Mónica A A ^a   Oliveira, Marta I ^a,b   Nunes, Raquel J ^a,b   Fabre, Stéphanie ^c   Barbosa, Rita ^a   Peixoto, António ^c   Brown, Marion H ^d   Parnes, Jane R ^e   Bismuth, Georges ^c   Moreira, Alexandra ^a   Rocha, Benedita ^c   Carmo, Alexandre M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CD6 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPH NODE CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 33947649690     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.7.4351     Document Type: Article

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