Runx and ThPOK: A balancing act to regulate thymocyte lineage commitment

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1037-1045

  Egawa, Takeshi ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene silencing; Lineage commitment; Runx; ThPOK; Thymocytes

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR THPOK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; THYMOCYTE;

CELL LINEAGE; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA SUBUNITS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 68049107171     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22212     Document Type: Review

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