The human IL-3/granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor locus is epigenetically silent in immature thymocytes and is progressively activated during T cell development

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3043-3054

  Mirabella, Fabio ^a,b   Baxter, Euan W ^a   Boissinot, Marjorie ^a   James, Sally R ^a   Cockerill, Peter N ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 3; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; IL3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CYTOKINES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LOCI; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-3; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 77951924012     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901364     Document Type: Article

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