Th2-specific chromatin remodeling and enhancer activity in the Th2 cytokine locus control region

Immunity

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 865-876

  Fields, Patrick E ^a   Lee, Gap Ryol ^a   Kim, Sean T ^a   Bartsevich, Victor V ^c   Flavell, Richard A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HISTONE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HISTONES; HUMANS; INTRONS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 10344234192     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2004.10.015     Document Type: Article

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