The epigenetic landscape of lineage choice: Lessons from the heritability of Cd4 and Cd8 expression

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 356, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-188

  Gialitakis, Manolis ^a   Sellars, MacLean ^a   Littman, Dan R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3;

ARTICLE; CD4 GENE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8 GENE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FOXP3 GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; HELPER CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; IL2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CELL LINEAGE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84857767452     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2011_175     Document Type: Article

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