Cutting edge: Chromatin remodeling at the IL-4/IL-13 intergenic regulatory region for Th2-specific cytokine gene cluster

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 165, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6687-6691

  Takemoto, N ^a   Kamogawa, Y ^a   Hyun Jun Lee, ^a   Kurata, H ^a   Arai, K I ^a   O'Garra, A ^a   Arai, N ^a   Miyatake, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0034671565     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.12.6687     Document Type: Article

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