MicroRNA regulation of T-cell differentiation and function

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-81

  Jeker, Lukas T ^a,b   Bluestone, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune regulation; MicroRNA; MiR 146a; MiR 155; MiR 17 92; T cell differentiation

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; MICRORNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGENESIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE LOCUS; INHIBITION KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICRORNAS; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84875777840     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12061     Document Type: Review

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