Regulation of early T-lineage gene expression and developmental progression by the progenitor cell transcription factor PU.1

Genes and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 832-848

  Champhekar, Ameya ^a,d   Damle, Sagar S ^a,e   Freedman, George ^a,f   Carotta, Sebastian ^b,c   Nutt, Stephen L ^b,c   Rothenberg, Ellen V ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional knockout; Hematopoiesis; In vitro development; Notch; Obligate repressor; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PU 1; TRANSCRIPTOME; NOTCH RECEPTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN SPI-1; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84927730158     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.259879.115     Document Type: Article

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