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HHS Public Access Author manuscript Author Manuscript Author ManuscriptNat Immunol Author Manuscript. Author manuscript; Author Manuscript available in PMC 2009 May 01. Published in final edited form as: Nat Immunol. 2008 November ; 9(11): 1307–1315. doi:10.1038/ni.1662. The actin regulator coronin-1A is mutated in a thymic egress deficient mouse strain and in a T−B+NK+ SCID patient Lawrence R. Shiow1,2,3, David W. Roadcap5, Kenneth Paris7, Susan R. Watson2, Irina L. Grigorova1,2, Tonya Lebet2,4, Jinping An1,2, Ying Xu1,2, Craig N. Jenne1,2, Niko Föger8, Ricardo U. Sorensen7, Christopher C. Goodnow6, James E. Bear5, Jennifer M. Puck3,4, and Jason G. Cyster1,2,3 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 3 Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 4 Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 5 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 6 John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 7 Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, LA 8 Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany Abstract Mice carrying the recessive peripheral T cell deficiency (Ptcd) locus have a block in thymic egress but the mechanism responsible is undefined.
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