Noncore RAG1 regions promote Vβ rearrangements and αβ T cell development by overcoming inherent inefficiency of Vβ recombination signal sequences

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1609-1619

  Horowitz, Julie E ^a   Bassing, Craig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; RAG1 PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ALPHA BETA T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84896737443     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301599     Document Type: Article

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