An ectopic CTCF-dependent transcriptional insulator influences the choice of Vβ gene segments for VDJ recombination at TCRβ locus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 7753-7765

  Shrimali, Sweety ^a   Srivastava, Surabhi ^a   Varma, Garima ^a   Grinberg, Alex ^b   Pfeifer, Karl ^b   Srivastava, Madhulika ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; H19 GENE; ICR GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TCRBETA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VBETA GENE; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

ANIMALS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; GENETIC LOCI; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; THYMOCYTES; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

MUS;

EID: 84870507845     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks556     Document Type: Article

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