The basic leucine zipper transcription factor E4BP4 is essential for natural killer cell development

Nature Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1118-1124

  Gascoyne, Duncan M ^a   Long, Elaine ^a   Veiga Fernandes, Henrique ^a,e   de Boer, Jasper ^a   Williams, Owen ^a   Seddon, Benedict ^b   Coles, Mark ^c   Kioussis, Dimitris ^a   Brady, Hugh J M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 2; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E4BP4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION PROTEIN 2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-15; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 70349446453     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1787     Document Type: Article

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