Regulation of DNA demethylation during maturation of CD4+ naive T cells by the conserved noncoding sequence 1

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 7698-7707

  Aoki, Kazuhisa ^a   Sato, Noriko ^b   Yamaguchi, Atsumi ^c   Kaminuma, Osamu ^a   Hosozawa, Takumi ^a   Miyatake, Shoichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; HISTONE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONSERVED NONCODING SEQUENCE 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THYMUS; TIME;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; DNA METHYLATION; GENE DELETION; HISTONES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67649184773     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0801643     Document Type: Article

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