The contribution of epigenetic memory to immunologic memory

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 154-159

  Zediak, Valerie P ^a   Wherry, E John ^a   Berger, Shelley L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3;

ACETYLATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HISTONE METHYLATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 79953161303     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.01.016     Document Type: Review

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