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ReviewSeminars in immunopathology2008

Molecular mechanisms that control mouse and human TCR-alphabeta and TCR-gammadelta T cell development.

Tom Taghon, Ellen V Rothenberg

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Review in Seminars in immunopathology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. T Cell Development: From T-Lineage Specification to Intrathymic Maturation.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  5. Transcriptional network dynamics in early T cell development.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2024
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  10. Identification and Purification of Human T Cell Precursors.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  13. Cutting Edge: TCR-β Selection Is Required at the CD4Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2021
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  17. Acquisition of the Midbrain Dopaminergic Neuronal Identity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tom TaghonDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 4 Blok A, 9000, Ghent, Belgium. tom.taghon@ugent.be
Ellen V Rothenberg

Funding

LINEAGE COMMITMENT MECHANISMS IN LYMPHOID PRECURSORSR01CA090233 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROTHENBERG, ELLEN V. · 2001 to 2011
$3.9M
GATA-3 in precursor commitment to the T lineageR01CA098925 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROTHENBERG, ELLEN V. · 2003 to 2007
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS CA90233NCI NIH HHS CA98925
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following specification of hematopoietic precursor cells into the T cell lineage, several developmental options remain available to the immature thymocytes. The paradigm is that the outcome of the T cell receptor rearrangements and the corresponding T cell receptor signaling events will be predominant to determine the first of these choices: the alphabeta versus gammadelta T cell pathways. Here, we review the thymus-derived environmental signals, the transcriptional mediators, and other molecular mechanisms that are also involved in this decision in both the mouse and human. We discuss the differences in cellular events between the alphabeta and gammadelta developmental pathways and try to correlate these with a corresponding complexity of the molecular mechanisms that support them.

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AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell LineageHumansLymphopoiesisMiceReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-betaReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-deltaThymus GlandT-LymphocytesT-Lymphocyte SubsetsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-betaReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta

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