Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18097446›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2008

Launching the T-cell-lineage developmental programme.

Ellen V Rothenberg, Jonathan E Moore, Mary A Yui

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 249 papers.

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249citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

249 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. IL-15 Plus Thymosin α1 Reduces Senescent Hepatic CD8Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2026
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  11. PervasivebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  18. T Cell Development: From T-Lineage Specification to Intrathymic Maturation.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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189 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ellen V RothenbergDivision of Biology 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Jonathan E Moore
Mary A Yui

Funding

LINEAGE COMMITMENT MECHANISMS IN LYMPHOID PRECURSORSR01CA090233 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROTHENBERG, ELLEN V. · 2001 to 2011
$3.9M
Early T cell checkpoint violation in NOD miceR01AI064590 · NIAID · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YUI, MARY A · 2006 to 2010
$1.9M
GATA-3 in precursor commitment to the T lineageR01CA098925 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROTHENBERG, ELLEN V. · 2003 to 2007
$1.8M
Discovering the Origins of the Adaptive Immune SystemF32AI068366 · NIAID · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MOORE, JONATHAN E · 2006 to 2008
$151k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA090233NCI NIH HHS R01 CA098925NCI NIH HHS R01 CA90233NCI NIH HHS R01 CA98925NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI068366NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI064590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multipotent blood progenitor cells enter the thymus and begin a protracted differentiation process in which they gradually acquire T-cell characteristics while shedding their legacy of developmental plasticity. Notch signalling and basic helix-loop-helix E-protein transcription factors collaborate repeatedly to trigger and sustain this process throughout the period leading up to T-cell lineage commitment. Nevertheless, the process is discontinuous with separately regulated steps that demand roles for additional collaborating factors. This Review discusses new evidence on the coordination of specification and commitment in the early T-cell pathway; effects of microenvironmental signals; the inheritance of stem-cell regulatory factors; and the ensemble of transcription factors that modulate the effects of Notch and E proteins, to distinguish individual stages and to polarize T-cell-lineage fate determination.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell LineageHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansT-Lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID18097446
PMCPMC3131407

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