Interferon Regulatory Factor 4 controls T H1 cell effector function and metabolism

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mahnke, Justus ^a   Schumacher, Valeá ^a   Ahrens, Stefanie ^a   Käding, Nadja ^b   Feldhoff, Lea Marie ^b   Huber, Magdalena ^c   Rupp, Jan ^b   Raczkowski, Friederike ^a   Mittrücker, Hans Willi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IFNG PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-4; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX21;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; TH1 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 84992424431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep35521     Document Type: Article

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