Post-transcriptional coordination of immunological responses by RNA-binding proteins

Nature Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 492-502

  Kafasla, Panagiota ^a   Skliris, Antonis ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitris L ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; EUKARYOTE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84901032555     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2884     Document Type: Review

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