Nuclear repositioning marks the selective exclusion of lineage-inappropriate transcription factor loci during T helper cell differentiation

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3604-3613

  Hewitt, Susannah L ^a   High, Frances A ^b   Reiner, Steven L ^b   Fisher, Amanda G ^a   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear repositioning

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; MICROSATELLITE DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PROBE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERITABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MAF; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 10944261946     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425469     Document Type: Article

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