Epigenetic regulation of promiscuous gene expression in thymic medullary epithelial cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19426-19431

  Tykocinski, Lars Oliver ^a,b   Sinemus, Anna ^a   Rezavandy, Esmail ^a   Weiland, Yanina ^b   Baddeley, David ^b   Cremer, Christoph ^b   Sonntag, Stephan ^c   Willecke, Klaus ^c   Derbinski, Jens ^a   Kyewski, Bruno ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central tolerance; Locus decontraction; Tissue restricted antigens

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78650594600     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009265107     Document Type: Article

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