RUNX transcription factor-mediated association of Cd4 and Cd8 enables coordinate gene regulation

Immunity

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 303-314

  Collins, Amélie ^a   Hewitt, Susannah L ^a   Chaumeil, Julie ^a   Sellars, MacLean ^a   Micsinai, Mariann ^a,b   Allinne, Jeanne ^a   Parisi, Fabio ^b   Nora, Elphège P ^c   Bolland, Dan J ^d   Corcoran, Anne E ^d   Kluger, Yuval ^b   Bosselut, Remy ^e   Ellmeier, Wilfried ^f   Chong, Mark M W ^a,i   Littman, Dan R ^a,g   Skok, Jane A ^a,h  

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

^b YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA SUBUNITS; EPIGENOMICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 79952750496     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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