Analysis of intergenic transcription and histone modification across the human immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 15872-15877

  Chowdhury, Muslima ^a   Forouhi, Omid ^b   Dayal, Sandeep ^c   McCloskey, Natalie ^a,b   Gould, Hannah J ^a,b   Felsenfeld, Gary ^c   Fear, David J ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Human B cells; Immunoglobulin class switching

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LYSINE; RNA;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA MODIFICATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SWITCH RECOMBINATION;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, INTERGENIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 57349114640     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808462105     Document Type: Article

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