Transcriptional Control of Lineage Differentiation in Immune Cells

2014
ISBN: 978-3-319-07394-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 381, 331 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 6328 g

Reihe: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Insights into the regulation of immune cell lineage differentiation and specification as well as into the control of lineage integrity, stability and plasticity are of fundamental importance to understanding innate and adaptive immune responses. In this volume, leading experts provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of recent advances in the transcriptional control mechanisms and transcription factor networks that regulate these processes in a variety of different immune cell lineages. The chapters cover the regulation of T versus B cell lineage choice, discuss early B cell development and pre-B cell leukemia prevention, address transcriptional control mechanisms during the differentiation, in regulatory T cells and iNKT cells, detail genomic switches in helper cell fate choice and plasticity and highlight the role of the BTB-zinc finger family of transcription factors in T cells. Moreover, the chapters discuss transcriptional networks in DCs, NK cells and in innate lymphoid cells. Together, the reviews illustrate key transcriptional control mechanisms that regulate the development and function of immune cells and demonstrate the impressive advances made over the last decade.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taniuchi, Ichiro

Ellmeier, Wilfried

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Molekulare Medizin, Zellbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinische Mikrobiologie & Virologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Genetic and epigenetic control of early lymphocyte development.- The role of BTB-zinc finger transcription factors during T cell development and in the regulation of T cell-mediated immunity.- Transcriptional control of the development and function of Va14i NKT cells.- Transcriptional Control of Regulatory T cells.- Transcriptional regulatory networks for CD4 T cell differentiation.- Transcriptional control of NK cell differentiation and function.- Transcriptional control of pre-B cell development and leukemia prevention.- Transcription factors controlling innate lymphoid cell fate decisions.- Transcriptional control of dendritic cell differentiation.- Helper T cell plasticity: Impact of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Signals On Transcriptomes and Epigenomes.

Über Autor(innen)

Wilfried Ellmeier, PhD., is Professor of Immunology at the Institute of Immunology, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Taniuchi Ichiro, M.D. PhD. Professor is Group Director of the Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI), Japan.