Comprehensive epigenetic profiling identifies multiple distal regulatory elements directing transcription of the gene encoding interferon-γ

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 732-742

  Schoenborn, Jamie R ^a   Dorschner, Michael O ^a   Sekimata, Masayuki ^a   Santer, Deanna M ^a   Shnyreva, Maria ^a   Fitzpatrick, David R ^b   Stamatoyonnapoulos, John A ^a   Wilson, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PO Box 270514 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 26;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SYNTENY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 34250773899     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1474     Document Type: Article

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