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A ROG(ue) in charge of the (natural) killers

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Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that exhibit many features of adaptive immunity, such as long-lived memory. This can now be extended to the transcriptional circuits that control the proliferation of NK cells and lymphocytes.

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Figure 1: Distinct controls of Blimp-1 expression in lymphocytes and NK cells.

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  1. Thomas Ciucci and Rémy Bosselut are with the Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,

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Ciucci, T., Bosselut, R. A ROG(ue) in charge of the (natural) killers. Nat Immunol 15, 531–532 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2895

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