Regulatory T-cell suppressor program co-opts transcription factor IRF4 to control TH2 responses

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7236, 2009, Pages 351-356

  Zheng, Ye ^a,d   Chaudhry, Ashutosh ^a,d   Kas, Arnold ^a   DeRoos, Paul ^a,d   Kim, Jeong M ^a   Chu, Tin Tin ^a   Corcoran, Lynn ^b   Treuting, Piper ^a   Klein, Ulf ^c   Rudensky, Alexander Y ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

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

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; PATHOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH2 CELLS; THYMUS GLAND;

MUS;

EID: 62649165369     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07674     Document Type: Article

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