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Published on: April 16, 2015
GATA3 and the T-cell lineage: essential functions before and after T-helper-2-cell differentiation
I-Cheng Ho1, Tzong-Shyuan Tai, Sung-Yun Pai
1Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. iho@partners.org
Abstract:
Many advances in our understanding of the molecules that regulate the development, differentiation and function of T cells have been made over the past few years. One important regulator of T-cell differentiation is the transcription factor GATA-binding protein 3 (GATA3). Although the main function of GATA3 is to act as a master transcription factor for the differentiation of T helper 2 (T(H)2) cells, new research has helped to uncover crucial functions of GATA3 in T cells that go beyond T(H)2-cell differentiation and that are important at earlier stages of haematopoietic and lymphoid-cell development. This Review focuses on the functions of GATA3 from early thymocyte development to effector T-cell differentiation. In addition, we discuss the interactions between GATA3 and other transcription factors and signalling pathways, and highlight the functional significance of the GATA3 protein structure.
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