Demethylation and the establishment of κ allelic exclusion

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 64, Issue , 1999, Pages 197-206

  Mostoslavsky, R ^a   Kirillov, A ^a   Ji, Y H ^a   Goldmit, M ^a   Holzmann, M ^b   Wirth, T ^b   Cedar, H ^a   Bergman, Y ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ZMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IN VITRO GENE TRANSFER; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELB;

EID: 0033498621     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1999.64.197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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