Intrathymic proliferation wave essential for Vα14+ natural killer T cell development depends on c-Myc

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

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8641-8646

  Dose, Marei ^a   Sleckman, Barry P ^b   Han, Jin ^a   Bredemeyer, Andrea L ^b   Bendelac, Albert ^a   Gounari, Fotini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; iNKT cells; Nonconventional lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN PLZF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; THYMUS GLAND;

MUS;

EID: 66649128115     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812255106     Document Type: Article

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