The transcriptional landscape of αβ T cell differentiation

Nature Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 619-632

  Mingueneau, Michael ^a   Kreslavsky, Taras ^a,b   Gray, Daniel ^c,d   Heng, Tracy ^a,e   Cruse, Richard ^a   Ericson, Jeffrey ^a   Bendall, Sean ^f   Spitzer, Matthew H ^f   Nolan, Garry P ^f   Kobayashi, Koichi ^b,g   Von Boehmer, Harald ^b   Mathis, Diane ^a   Benoist, Christophe ^a   Best, Adam J ^h   Knell, Jamie ^h   Goldrath, Ananda ^h   Koller, Daphne ⁱ   Shay, Tal ^j   Regev, Aviv ^j   Cohen, Nadia ^k   Brennan, Patrick ^k   Brenner, Michael ^k   Kim, Francis ^l   Rao, Tata Nageswara ^l   Wagers, Amy ^l   Rothamel, Katherine ^a   Ortiz Lopez, Adriana ^a   Bezman, Natalie A ^m   Sun, Joseph C ^m   Min Oo, Gundula ^m   Kim, Charlie C ^m   Lanier, Lewis L ^m   Miller, Jennifer ⁿ   Brown, Brian ⁿ   Merad, Miriam ⁿ   Gautier, Emmanuel L ^n,o   Jakubzick, Claudia ⁿ   Randolph, Gwendalyn J ^n,o   Monach, Paul ^p   Blair, David A ^q   Dustin, Michael L ^q   Shinton, Susan A ^r   Hardy, Richard R ^r   Laidlaw, David ^s   Collins, Jim ^t   Gazit, Roi ^u   Rossi, Derrick J ^u   Malhotra, Nidhi ^v   Sylvia, Katelyn ^v   Kang, Joonsoo ^v   Fletcher, Anne ^a   Elpek, Kutlu ^a   Bellemare Pelletier, Angelique ^a   Malhotra, Deepali ^a   Turley, Shannon ^a   more..

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

ⁱ Stanford University   (United States)

^j MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^q NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^s Brown University   (United States)

^t Boston University   (United States)

^u BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYC PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE DELETION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; THYMOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84878258655     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2590     Document Type: Article

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