CTCF-binding elements mediate control of V(D)J recombination

Nature

Volumn 477, Issue 7365, 2011, Pages 424-430

  Guo, Chunguang ^a   Yoon, Hye Suk ^a   Franklin, Andrew ^a   Jain, Suvi ^a   Ebert, Anja ^b   Cheng, Hwei Ling ^a   Hansen, Erica ^a   Despo, Orion ^a   Bossen, Claudia ^c   Vettermann, Christian ^d   Bates, Jamie G ^d   Richards, Nicholas ^a   Myers, Darienne ^a   Patel, Harin ^a   Gallagher, Michael ^a   Schlissel, Mark S ^d   Murre, Cornelis ^c   Busslinger, Meinrad ^b   Giallourakis, Cosmas C ^a,e   Alt, Frederick W ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL BINDING; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; INHIBITION; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLG5 GENE; EXON; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTERGENIC CONTROL REGION 1; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPLEEN CELL; THYMOCYTE; UPREGULATION; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA, INTERGENIC; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VDJ EXONS;

MUS;

EID: 80053130223     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10495     Document Type: Article

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