Mechanisms controlling expression of the RAG locus during lymphocyte development

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-178

  Kuo, Tracy C ^a   Schlissel, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABELSON KINASE; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL;

EID: 65249104895     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2009.03.008     Document Type: Review

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