Lineage-specific adjacent IFNG and IL26 genes share a common distal enhancer element

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 481-488

  Collins, P L ^a   Henderson, M A ^a   Aune, T M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cytokine genes; distal enhancers; gene order

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 26; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; IFNG GENE; IL 26 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE DELETION; TH1 CELLS; TH17 CELLS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84865627673     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2012.22     Document Type: Article

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