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Monocyte function in a severe combined immunodeficient patient with a donor splice site mutation in the Jak3 gene.
Blood - 1 Aug 1996
Villa A, Sironi M, Macchi P, Matteucci C, Notarangelo L D, Vezzoni P, Mantovani A
Abstract excerpt
Janus kinase-3 (Jak3) is a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase functionally coupled to cytokine receptors which share a "common" gamma chain (gamma c). Mutations in gamma c and Jak3 genes have been identified in X-linked and autosomal severe combined immuno deficiency (SCID), respectively. Jak3 is expressed and activated in myelomonocytic cells. The present study was designed to define the structural alteration...
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