Transcriptional regulation of mast cell and basophil lineage commitment

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 539-548

  Huang, Hua ^a,b   Li, Yapeng ^a   Liu, Bing ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ZHONGNAN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basophils; Bi potential basophil mast cell progenitors; Lineage commitment; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; INTERFERON CONSENSUS SEQUENCE BINDING PROTEIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; BASOPHIL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT GM; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASOPHILS; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE PROGENITOR CELLS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84964475986     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-016-0562-4     Document Type: Review

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