An endogenous positively selecting peptide enhances mature t cell responses and becomes an autoantigen in the absence of microrna mir-181a

Nature Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1162-1169

  Ebert, Peter J R ^a   Jiang, Shan ^b   Xie, Jianming ^a   Li, Qi Jing ^b   Davis, Mark M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; MIRN181 MICRORNA, MOUSE; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONAL DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70350435670     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1797     Document Type: Article

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