Effector Regulatory T Cell Differentiation and Immune Homeostasis Depend on the Transcription Factor Myb

Immunity

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 78-91

  Dias, Sheila ^a,b   D'Amico, Angela ^a   Cretney, Erika ^a,b   Liao, Yang ^a,b   Tellier, Julie ^a,b   Bruggeman, Christine ^a   Almeida, Francisca F ^a,b   Leahy, Jamie ^a   Belz, Gabrielle T ^a,b   Smyth, Gordon K ^a,b   Shi, Wei ^a,b   Nutt, Stephen L ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

digital genomic footprint; immune pathology; Myb; peripheral regulatory T cell; regulatory T cell; transcription Factor

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MYB; TRANSCRIPTOME; PROTEIN C MYB;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85009495781     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.12.017     Document Type: Article

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