Duel of the fates: The role of transcriptional circuits and noise in CD4+ cells

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 350-358

  Hebenstreit, Daniel ^a   Deonarine, Andrew ^a   Babu, M Madan ^a   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; RNA POLYMERASE II; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL POPULATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861985061     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.03.007     Document Type: Review

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