The Igκ gene enhancers, E3' and ed, are essential for triggering transcription

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7544-7552

  Xiaorong, Zhou ^a,b   Yougui, Xiang ^a   Garrard, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

3' ENHANCER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; DOWNSTREAM ENHANCER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; INTRONIC ENHANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HISTONES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78650643443     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002665     Document Type: Article

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