B lymphocyte lineage specification, commitment and epigenetic control of transcription by early B cell factor 1

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 356, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-38

  Hagman, James ^a   Ramírez, Julita ^a   Lukin, Kara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD79A ANTIGEN; EARLY B CELL FACTOR 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; EPIGENETICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOPOIESIS; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VDJ RECOMBINATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINEAGE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84857773782     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2011_139     Document Type: Article

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