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Nature Immunology 9, 1009–1011 (1 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/ni0908-1009

The making of NKT cells

Laurent Gapin

Multipotent progenitors from the bone marrow colonize the thymus and differentiate into various T cell lineages in response to environmental cues. Such signals induce specific cell-intrinsic transcriptional programs.