Regulation of Th2 differentiation and Il4 locus accessibility

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2006, Pages 607-656

  Ansel, K Mark ^a   Djuretic, Ivana ^a   Tanasa, Bogdan ^a   Rao, Anjana ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Cytokine; Epigenetic regulation; RNA interference RNAi; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH2 CELL; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOKINES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 33646196946     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.23.021704.115821     Document Type: Review

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