Mature human neutrophils constitutively express the transcription factor EGR-1

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1701-1709

  Cullen, Eva M ^a   Brazil, Jennifer C ^a   O'Connor, Clare M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Gene expression; Inflammation; Protein

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STIMULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOPLASM; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-8; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE; NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION; NEUTROPHILS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 77952322659     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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