The heterogeneity of human CD127+ innate lymphoid cells revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

Nature Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 451-460

  Björklund, Asa K ^a,b,c   Forkel, Marianne ^b   Picelli, Simone ^a   Konya, Viktoria ^b   Theorell, Jakob ^b   Friberg, Danielle ^d   Sandberg, Rickard ^a,b   Mjösberg, Jenny ^b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD27 ANTIGEN; CD28 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD6 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; IL17RB PROTEIN; IL1RL1 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 18 BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; JANUS KINASE; KLRG1 PROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 2; PLZF PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PTGDR2 PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; STAT PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA LIBRARY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNORECEPTOR TYROSINE BASED ACTIVATION MOTIF; INNATE LYMPHOID CELL 1; INNATE LYMPHOID CELL 2; INNATE LYMPHOID CELL 3; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LYMPHOID CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL RNA SEQUENCING; TONSIL CELL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PALATINE TONSIL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERLEUKIN-7 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALATINE TONSIL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958078627     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3368     Document Type: Article

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