Ezrin is highly expressed in early thymocytes, but dispensable for T cell development in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Shaffer, Meredith H ^a   Huang, Yanping ^a   Corbo, Evann ^a   Wu, Gregory F ^a   Velez, Marielena K ^a   Choi, John K ^a   Saotome, Ichiko ^b   Cannon, Judy L ^c   Mcclatchey, Andrea I ^b   Sperling, Anne I ^c   Maltzman, Jonathan S ^a   Oliver, Paula M ^a   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a   Laufer, Terri M ^a   Burkhardt, Janis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GRANULOCYTE PRECURSOR; HEMATOPOIESIS; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; STROMA CELL; TIME;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEMATOPOIESIS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; SPLEEN; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77957914392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012404     Document Type: Article

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