The actin-driven spatiotemporal organization of T-cell signaling at the system scale

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 133-147

  Roybal, Kole T ^a   Sinai, Parisa ^a,b   Verkade, Paul ^b   Murphy, Robert F ^c   Wülfing, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Imaging; Systems biology; T cell signaling

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAMELLAR BODY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ACTIN; IMAGING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; T-CELL SIGNALING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84885347155     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12103     Document Type: Article

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