Repeat Organization and Epigenetic Regulation of the DH-Cμ Domain of the Immunoglobulin Heavy-Chain Gene Locus

Molecular Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 842-850

  Chakraborty, Tirtha ^a   Chowdhury, Dipanjan ^b   Keyes, Amanda ^a,c   Jani, Anant ^a,d   Subrahmanyam, Ramesh ^a   Ivanova, Irina ^a   Sen, Ranjan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; HISTONES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

MURINAE;

EID: 34548247115     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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