Elevated and sustained expression of the transcription factors Egr1 and Egr2 controls NKT lineage differentiation in response to TCR signaling

Nature Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 264-271

  Seiler, Michael P ^a   Mathew, Rebecca ^a   Liszewski, Megan K ^a   Spooner, Chauncey ^a,b   Barr, Kenneth ^a   Meng, Fanyong ^a   Singh, Harinder ^a,b   Bendelac, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84857190947     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2230     Document Type: Article

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