A stepwise epigenetic process controls immunoglobulin allelic exclusion

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 753-761

  Bergman, Yehudit ^a   Cedar, Howard ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; ALLELIC EXCLUSION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; STEREOCHEMISTRY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ALLELES; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 5044220453     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1458     Document Type: Review

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