Transcriptional control during T-cell development
β Scribed by Hans Clevers; Pierre Ferrier
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 586 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-7915
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β¦ Synopsis
During the past few years, the essential role of distinct transcription factors in specifying cell-fate decisions in a stepwise fashion during T-cell differentiation has been revealed. One striking feature is that a single factor can act at several sites throughout T-cell development, possibly through interactions with different partners. The challenge is now to understand how these interactions can account for the co-ordination of complex extracellular signals and gene expression programs, such as those involved in T-cell receptor gene recombination and expression.
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