Mice lacking Sμ tandem repeats maintain RNA polymerase patterns but exhibit histone modification pattern shifts linked to class switch site locations

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Balter, Barbara B ^a   Ciccone, David N ^b   Oettinger, Marjorie A ^b   Selsing, Erik ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Class switching; Histone modification; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 4; LYSINE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BREAKS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HISTONES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA POLYMERASE II; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

MUS;

EID: 84860690562     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: 18729142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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