A barrier-type insulator forms a boundary between active and inactive chromatin at the murine TCRβ locus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3556-3562

  Carabana, Juan ^b   Watanabe, Akiko ^c   Hao, Bingtao ^c   Krangel, Michael S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; TCRB GENE; TRANSGENE; TRYPSINOGEN GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; JURKAT CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRYPSINOGEN;

EID: 79953172570     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003164     Document Type: Article

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