Transcription factor IRF8 directs a silencing programme for TH17 cell differentiation

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ouyang, Xinshou ^a   Zhang, Ruihua ^a   Yang, Jianjun ^a   Li, Qingshan ^a   Qin, Lihui ^a   Zhu, Chen ^b   Liu, Jianguo ^c   Ning, Huan ^c   Shin, Min Sun ^d   Gupta, Monica ^e   Qi, Chen Feng ^d   He, John Cijiang ^a   Lira, Sergio A ^a   Morse III, Herbert C ^d   Ozato, Keiko ^e   Mayer, Lloyd ^a   Xiong, Huabao ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON CONSENSUS SEQUENCE BINDING PROTEIN; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA T; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 17;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNIZATION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE MUTANT;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; INTERLEUKIN-17; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEQUENCE DELETION; TH17 CELLS;

EID: 79956279442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1311     Document Type: Article

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