Changes in histone acetylation are associated with differences in accessibility of VH gene segments to V-DJ recombination during B-cell ontogeny and development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2438-2450

  Johnson, Kristen ^a   Angelin Duclos, Cristina ^a,b   Park, Sinae ^a   Calame, Kathryn L ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; RECOMBINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SPACER DNA;

ACETYLATION; ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3T3 CELLS; ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; PRECIPITIN TESTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037378479     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.7.2438-2450.2003     Document Type: Article

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