Mouse sertoli cells sustain de novo generation of regulatory T cells by triggering the notch pathway through soluble JAGGED1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Campese, Antonio Francesco ^a   Grazioli, Paola ^a   De Cesaris, Paola ^b,c   Riccioli, Anna ^c   Bellavia, Diana ^a   Pelullo, Maria ^a   Padula, Fabrizio ^c   Noce, Claudia ^a   Verkhovskaia, Sofia ^a   Filippini, Antonio ^c   Latella, Giovanni ^b   Screpanti, Isabella ^b,c   Ziparo, Elio ^b,c   Starace, Donatella ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunology; JAGGED1; Sertoli cells; Testis immune privilege; Treg cells

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEY1 PROTEIN; JAGGED1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CSL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RBP JK; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPLEEN CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

IMMUNOLOGY; JAGGED1; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS IMMUNE PRIVILEGE; TREG CELLS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SERTOLI CELLS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84899977730     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.113803     Document Type: Article

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