Roles for helper T cell lineage-specifying transcription factors in cellular specialization

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 171-206

  Weinmann, Amy S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Bcl 6; Innate lymphoid cells; Specialized helper T cells; T bet

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 6; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX21; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOID CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH2 CELL; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; METABOLISM; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84906763810     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800147-9.00006-6     Document Type: Chapter

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