Skint1, the prototype of a newly identified immunoglobulin superfamily gene cluster, positively selects epidermal γδ T cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 656-662

  Boyden, Lynn M ^a   Lewis, Julia M ^a   Barbee, Susannah D ^b   Bas, Anna ^b   Girardi, Michael ^a   Hayday, Adrian C ^b   Tigelaar, Robert E ^a   Lifton, Richard P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SKINT1 GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; EPIDERMIS; HAPLOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 42649092113     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.108     Document Type: Article

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