Themis is a member of a new metazoan gene family and is required for the completion of thymocyte positive selection

Nature Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 831-839

  Johnson, Andy L ^a,b   Aravind, L ^c   Shulzhenko, Natalia ^b   Morgun, Andre ^b   Choi, See Young ^b   Crockford, Tanya L ^a   Lambe, Teresa ^a   Domaschenz, Heather ^d   Kucharska, Edyta M ^d   Zheng, Lixin ^e   Vinuesa, Carola G ^d   Lenardo, Michael J ^e   Goodnow, Christopher C ^d   Cornall, Richard J ^a   Schwartz, Ronald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR BOUND PROTEIN 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; THYMUS EXPRESSED MOLECULE INVOLVED IN SELECTION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON; TANDEM REPEAT; THYMOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 67651149464     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1769     Document Type: Article

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