Reversible contraction by looping of the Tcra and Tcrb loci in rearranging thymocytes

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 378-387

  Skok, Jane A ^a,c,d   Gisler, Ramiro ^b,c   Novatchkova, Maria ^b   Farmer, Deborah ^a   de Laat, Wouter ^c   Busslinger, Meinrad ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR DELTA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34248583377     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1448     Document Type: Article

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