Epigenetic features that regulate IgH locus recombination and expression

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 356, Issue , 2012, Pages 39-63

  Subrahmanyam, Ramesh ^a   Sen, Ranjan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMSOME CONFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857723323     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2011_153     Document Type: Article

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