CD4 +CD25 +Foxp3 + regulatory T cell formation requires more specific recognition of a self-peptide than thymocyte deletion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 14890-14895

  Picca, Cristina Cozzo ^a   Simons, Donald M ^a   Oh, Soyoung ^a   Aitken, Malinda ^a   Perng, Olivia A ^a   Mergenthaler, Christina ^a   Kropf, Elizabeth ^a   Erikson, Jan ^a   Caton, Andrew J ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity; Immune regulation; Specificity; Tolerance; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

PARTIAL AGONIST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; GENE DELETION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; THYMUS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 80052572177     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103810108     Document Type: Article

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