Heterogeneity of natural Foxp3+ T cells: A committed regulatory T-cell lineage and an uncommitted minor population retaining plasticity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1903-1908

  Komatsu, Noriko ^a   Mariotti Ferrandiz, Maria Encarnita ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Malissen, Bernard ^b   Waldmann, Herman ^c   Hori, Shohei ^a  

^a Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^b CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunological tolerance; Lineage commitment; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOKINES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 60549115770     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811556106     Document Type: Article

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