Synergistic effects of interleukin-7 and pre-T cell receptor signaling in human T cell development

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 33826-33835

  Patel, Ekta S ^a   Chang, Lung Ji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTORS; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN T CELLS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA CELL LINES; MODEL SYSTEM; SIGNALING PATHWAYS; SPECIFIC INHIBITORS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; T CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

CELL CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

CELL MEMBRANES;

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; STAT5 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

CALCIUM; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DOWN-REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN-7; JURKAT CELLS; LENTIVIRUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84866903102     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.380113     Document Type: Article

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