A Plant Homeodomain in Rag-2 that Binds Hypermethylated Lysine 4 of Histone H3 Is Necessary for Efficient Antigen-Receptor-Gene Rearrangement

Immunity

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 561-571

  Liu, Yun ^a   Subrahmanyam, Ramesh ^b   Chakraborty, Tirtha ^b   Sen, Ranjan ^b   Desiderio, Stephen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

MOLIMMUNO

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; LYSINE; RAG2 PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; METHYLATION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYSINE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; STEM CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 35349024178     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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