Chromatin topology and the regulation of antigen receptor assembly

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2012, Pages 337-356

  Bossen, Claudia ^a   Mansson, Robert ^a   Murre, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen receptor loci; Chromatin structure; Epigenetics; Genomic interactions

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HISTONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAVY CHAIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; LIGHT CHAIN; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; VDJ RECOMBINATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84859383686     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: 15453278     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-020711-075003     Document Type: Review

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