Two-step binding of transcription factors causes sequential chromatin structural changes at the activated IL-2 promoter

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3292-3299

  Ishihara, Satoru ^a,b   Schwartz, Ronald H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C JUN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 80053091651     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003173     Document Type: Article

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