Regulation of IL-4 gene expression by distal regulatory elements and GATA-3 at the chromatin level

Immunity

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 447-459

  Lee, Gap Ryol ^a   Fields, Patrick E ^a,b   Flavell, Richard A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0035041537     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(01)00125-X     Document Type: Article

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