An essential role for the transcription factor HEB in thymocyte survival, Tcra rearrangement and the development of natural killer T cells

Nature Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-249

  D'Cruz, Louise M ^a   Knell, Jamie ^a   Fujimoto, Jessica K ^a   Goldrath, Ananda W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL XL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HEB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIMERA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 76949089741     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1845     Document Type: Article

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