Temporal and spatial regulation of V(D)J recombination: Interactions of extrinsic factors with the RAG complex

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 650, Issue , 2009, Pages 157-165

  Liu, Yun ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Desiderio, Stephen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LYSINE; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL MATURATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 70349567010     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0296-2_13     Document Type: Article

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