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Blimp-1 over Budapest

Mark M Davis1

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. mdavis@cmgm.stanford.edu

Nature Immunology
|April 19, 2007
PubMed

Blimp-1 is a transcription factor that affects the expression of hundreds of genes in lymphocytes. Recent work confirmed its role in the maturation of B cells into immunoglobulin-secreting plasmablasts, as well as in the control of T cell homeostasis and tolerance. What follows is a short history of how Blimp-1 was discovered.

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