Haematopoietic cell-fate decisions, chromatin regulation and ikaros

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 162-174

  Georgopoulos, Katia ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZNFN1A1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL CELL; BROMODOMAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN CODE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMODOMAIN; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEREDITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOSOME REMODELING AND DEACETYLATION COMPLEX; PERICENTROMERIC HETEROCHROMATIN; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036519296     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri747     Document Type: Review

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