Transcription-dependent mobilization of nucleosomes at accessible TCR gene segments in vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6970-6977

  Kondilis Mangum, Hrisavgi D ^a   Cobb, Robin Milley ^b   Osipovich, Oleg ^c   Srivatsan, Sruti ^a   Oltz, Eugene M ^c   Krangel, Michael S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GERM LINE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TCRA GENE; TCRB GENE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953638539     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903923     Document Type: Article

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