An NF-κB Transcription-Factor-Dependent Lineage-Specific Transcriptional Program Promotes Regulatory T Cell Identity and Function

Immunity

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 450-465.e5

  Oh, Hyunju ^a   Grinberg Bleyer, Yenkel ^a   Liao, Will ^b   Maloney, Dillon ^b   Wang, Pingzhang ^a   Wu, Zikai ^a   Wang, Jiguang ^a   Bhatt, Dev M ^a   Heise, Nicole ^a   Schmid, Roland M ^c   Hayden, Matthew S ^a,d   Klein, Ulf ^a,e   Rabadan, Raul ^a   Ghosh, Sankar ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; TRANSCRIPTOME; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING SITES; BIOMARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOKINES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NF-KAPPA B; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85028928950     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.08.010     Document Type: Article

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