Transcription factor networks directing the development, function, and evolution of innate lymphoid effectors

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 505-538

  Kang, Joonsoo ^a   Malhotra, Nidhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Evolution of immunity; Fetal lymphopoiesis; T cells; Transcription factor regulatory network; T cells

Indexed keywords

HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 2; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ROR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ROR GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROTECTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GAMMA DELTA T LYMPHOCYTE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOPOIESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84927663029     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: 15453278     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-032414-112025     Document Type: Article

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