Unifying model for molecular determinants of the preselection Vβ repertoire

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 34, 2013, Pages

  Gopalakrishnan, Suhasni ^a   Majumder, Kinjal ^a   Predeus, Alexander ^a   Huang, Yue ^a   Koues, Olivia I ^a   Verma Gaur, Jiyoti ^b,c   Loguercio, Salvatore ^b,c   Su, Andrew I ^b,c   Feeney, Ann J ^b,c   Artyomov, Maxim N ^a   Oltz, Eugene M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Immunology and Microbial Science ^*  (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Lymphocytes; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

AGR PROTEIN; DBETAJBETA PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VBETA PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN; CODING; EXON; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; THYMOCYTE;

GENE REGULATION; LYMPHOCYTES; T-CELL RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84882755183     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304048110     Document Type: Article

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