Biochemical and functional analyses of chromatin changes at the TCR-β gene locus during CD4-CD8- to CD4+CD8+ thymocyte differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1256-1267

  Chattopadhyay, Samit ^a   Whitehurst, Charles E ^a   Schwenk, Frieder ^b   Chen, Jianzhu ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA METHYLATION; GENE DELETION; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED NZB; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RESEARCH DESIGN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031892787     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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