Cbx4 regulates the proliferation of thymic epithelial cells and thymus function

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 780-788

  Liu, Bo ^a,b   Liu, Yuan Feng ^a   Du, Ya Rui ^b   Mardaryev, Andrei N ^c   Yang, Wei ^b   Chen, Hui ^b   Xu, Zhi Mei ^b   Xu, Chen Qi ^b   Zhang, Xiao Ren ^d   Botchkarev, Vladimir A ^c,e   Zhang, Yu ^a   Xu, Guo Liang ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cbx4; Epithelial progenitor; p63 (Trp63); Polycomb; T lymphopoiesis; Thymic epithelial cell; Thymic hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

CBX4 PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN P63; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL MATURATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXON; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOPLASIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84873129944     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.085035     Document Type: Article

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