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SUBMITTER: Bezman NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3572860 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bezman Natalie A NA Kim Charles C CC Sun Joseph C JC Min-Oo Gundula G Hendricks Deborah W DW Kamimura Yosuke Y Best J Adam JA Goldrath Ananda W AW Lanier Lewis L LL
Nature immunology 20120819 10
Using whole-genome microarray data sets of the Immunological Genome Project, we demonstrate a closer transcriptional relationship between NK cells and T cells than between any other leukocytes, distinguished by their shared expression of genes encoding molecules with similar signaling functions. Whereas resting NK cells are known to share expression of a few genes with cytotoxic CD8(+) T cells, our transcriptome-wide analysis demonstrates that the commonalities extend to hundreds of genes, many ...[more]