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Identification of a novel cis-regulatory element essential for immune tolerance

Thymic central tolerance is essential to preventing autoimmunity. In medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs), the Autoimmune regulator (Aire) gene plays an essential role in this process by driving the expression of a diverse set of tissue-specific antigens (TSAs), which are presented and help tol...

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Autores principales: LaFlam, Taylor N., Seumois, Grégory, Miller, Corey N., Lwin, Wint, Fasano, Kayla J., Waterfield, Michael, Proekt, Irina, Vijayanand, Pandurangan, Anderson, Mark S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26527800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20151069