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Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ChIP in Mouse T-cell Lines
Published on: June 17, 2017
Using mouse models to study function of transcriptional factors in T cell development
Peng Li1, Yiren Xiao1, Zhixin Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzchou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China ; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Abstract:
Laboratory mice have widely been used as tools for basic biological research and models for studying human diseases. With the advances of genetic engineering and conditional knockout (CKO) mice, we now understand hematopoiesis is a dynamic stepwise process starting from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) which are responsible for replenishing all blood cells. Transcriptional factors play important role in hematopoiesis. In this review we compile several studies on using genetic modified mice and humanized mice to study function of transcriptional factors in lymphopoiesis, including T lymphocyte and Natural killer (NK) cell development. Finally, we focused on the key transcriptional factor Bcl11b and its function in regulating T cell specification and commitment.
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