Alternative splicing controlled by heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein L regulates development, proliferation, and migration of thymic pre-T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5377-5388

  Gaudreau, Marie Claude ^a,b   Heyd, Florian ^c   Bastien, Rachel ^a   Wilhelm, Brian ^d   Möröy, Tarik ^a,b  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45RA ANTIGEN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN L; PROTEIN KINASE LCK; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TYROSINE;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN L; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84862002189     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1103142     Document Type: Article

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