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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-10-20
pubmed:abstractText
A signal initiated by the newly formed Ag receptor is integrated with microenvironmental cues during T cell development to ensure positive selection of CD4+CD8+ progenitors into functionally mature CD4+ or CD8+ T lymphocytes. During this transition, a survival program is initiated, TCR gene recombination ceases, cells migrate into a new thymic microenvironment, the responsiveness of the Ag receptor is tuned, and the cells commit to a specific T lineage. To determine potential regulators of these processes, we used mRNA microarray analysis to compare gene expression changes in CD4+CD8+ thymocytes from TCR transgenic mice that have received a TCR selection signal with those that had not received a signal. We found 129 genes with expression that changed significantly during positive selection, the majority of which were not previously appreciated. A large number of these changes were confirmed by real-time PCR or flow cytometry. We have combined our findings with gene changes reported in the literature to provide a comprehensive report of the genes regulated during positive selection, and we attempted to assign these genes to positive selection process categories.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
173
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5434-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Cell Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Cell Death, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Recombination, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-T-Lymphocyte Subsets, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Thymus Gland, pubmed-meshheading:15494490-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
The regulated expression of a diverse set of genes during thymocyte positive selection in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Validation Studies