Deciphering the Innate Lymphoid Cell Transcriptional Program

Cell Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 436-447

  Seillet, Cyril ^a   Mielke, Lisa A ^a   Amann Zalcenstein, Daniela B ^a   Su, Shian ^a   Gao, Jerry ^a   Almeida, Francisca F ^a   Shi, Wei ^a   Ritchie, Matthew E ^a   Naik, Shalin H ^a   Huntington, Nicholas D ^a   Carotta, Sebastian ^a,b   Belz, Gabrielle T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

development; immunity; innate; innate lymphoid cells; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; NFIL3 PROTEIN; PLZF PROTEIN; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HNF1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; NFIL3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PDCD1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYMPHOID CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-ALPHA; IMMUNITY, INNATE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85003819891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.025     Document Type: Article

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