Rac GTPases play critical roles in early T-cell development

Blood

Volumn 113, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3990-3998

  Dumont, Celine ^a   Corsoni Tadrzak, Agnieszka ^a   Ruf, Sandra ^a   De Boer, Jasper ^a   Williams, Adam ^a   Turner, Martin ^b   Kioussis, Dimitris ^a   Tybulewicz, Victor L J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RAC GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAC2 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAV PROTEIN; VAV1 PROTEIN; VAV2 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 7; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; RAC1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOPOIESIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; THYMUS; TIME; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LEUKOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROPEPTIDES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 65449180370     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-09-181180     Document Type: Article

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