T Helper Cell Differentiation: Regulation by cis Elements and Epigenetics

Immunity

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 369-379

  Lee, Gap Ryol ^a   Kim, Sean T ^a   Spilianakis, Charalampos G ^a   Fields, Patrick E ^a   Flavell, Richard A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EFFECTOR CELL; EPIGENETICS; EXAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 33646012294     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2006.03.007     Document Type: Review

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