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Centromeric repositioning of coreceptor loci predicts their stable silencing and the CD4/CD8 lineage choice.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 6 Dec 2004
Merkenschlager Matthias, Amoils Shannon, Roldan Esther, Rahemtulla Amin, O'connor Eric, Fisher Amanda G, Brown Karen E
Abstract excerpt
The differentiation of CD4(+) CD8(+) double positive (DP) thymocytes requires the irreversible choice between two alternative lineages, distinguished by the mutually exclusive expression of either CD4 or CD8. Differentiating DP cells transiently down-regulate both CD4 and CD8, and this has complicated the debate whether the mechanism of CD4/CD8 lineage choice is instructive, stochastic/selective, or more complex...
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