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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Takashi Kanaya
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-37861 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Kanaya Takashi T Hase Koji K Takahashi Daisuke D Fukuda Shinji S Hoshino Katsuaki K Sasaki Izumi I Hemmi Hiroaki H Knoop Kathryn A KA Kumar Nachiket N Sato Mayuko M Katsuno Tatsuro T Yokosuka Osamu O Toyooka Kiminori K Nakai Kumiko K Sakamoto Ayako A Kitahara Yuuki Y Jinnohara Toshi T McSorley Stephen J SJ Kaisho Tsuneyasu T Williams Ifor R IR Ohno Hiroshi H
Nature immunology 20120617 8
Intestinal microfold cells (M cells) are an enigmatic lineage of intestinal epithelial cells that initiate mucosal immune responses through the uptake and transcytosis of luminal antigens. The mechanisms of M-cell differentiation are poorly understood, as the rarity of these cells has hampered analysis. Exogenous administration of the cytokine RANKL can synchronously activate M-cell differentiation in mice. Here we show the Ets transcription factor Spi-B was induced early during M-cell different ...[more]