Cutting edge: Persistently open chromatin at effector gene loci in resting memory CD8+ T cells independent of transcriptional status

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 186, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2705-2709

  Zediak, Valerie P ^a   Johnnidis, Jonathan B ^a   Wherry, E John ^a   Berger, Shelley L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME B; PERFORIN; PERFORIN 1; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HISTONE METHYLATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; G0 PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; GRANZYMES; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952756708     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003741     Document Type: Article

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