Cell division curtails helper phenotype plasticity and expedites helper T-cell differentiation

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 860-868

  Van Den Ham, Henk Jan ^a,b   De Boer, Rob J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

epigenetic regulation; helper T cell phenotypes; mathematical modelling; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL EXPANSION; CPG ISLAND; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEMETHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; HELPER CELL; MEMORY CELL; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOKINES; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84867740388     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2012.23     Document Type: Article

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