The lupus susceptibility gene Pbx1 regulates the balance between follicular helper t cell and regulatory t cell differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 458-469

  Choi, Seung Chul ^a   Hutchinson, Tarun E ^a   Titov, Anton A ^a   Seay, Howard R ^a   Li, Shiwu ^a   Brusko, Todd M ^a   Croker, Byron P ^a   Salek Ardakani, Shahram ^a   Morel, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 10A; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 21; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PBX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PBX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR HELPER T CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HELPER CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PBX1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TH1 CELL; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84978114974     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1502283     Document Type: Article

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