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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Barbara Kee
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-43224 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Blood 20130107 9
The E2A transcription factors promote the development of thymus-seeding cells, but it remains unknown whether these proteins play a role in T lymphocyte lineage specification or commitment. Here, we showed that E2A proteins were required to promote T-lymphocyte commitment from DN2 thymocytes and to extinguish their potential for alternative fates. E2A proteins functioned in DN2 cells to limit expression of Gata3, which encodes an essential T-lymphocyte transcription factor whose ectopic expressi ...[more]