Runx proteins regulate Foxp3 expression

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 206, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2329-2337

  Bruno, Ludovica ^a   Mazzarella, Luca ^a   Hoogenkamp, Maarten ^b   Hertweck, Arnulf ^a   Cobb, Bradley S ^a   Sauer, Stephan ^a   Hadjur, Suzana ^a   Leleu, Marion ^a   Naoe, Yoshinori ^c,d   Telfer, Janice C ^e   Bonifer, Constanze ^b   Taniuchi, Ichiro ^c,d   Fisher, Amanda G ^a   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE BINDING FACTOR BETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3; CBFB PROTEIN, MOUSE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RUNX3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOXP3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DOMINANT GENE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 3 SUBUNIT; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA SUBUNITS; CORE BINDING FACTOR BETA SUBUNIT; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENES, DOMINANT; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 70449706325     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20090226     Document Type: Article

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