A general approach for controlling transcription and probing epigenetic mechanisms: Application to the Cd4 locus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 737-747

  Wan, Mimi ^a   Kaundal, Ravinder ^a   Huang, Haichang ^a   Zhao, Jiugang ^a   Yang, Xiaojun ^a   Chaiyachati, Barbara H ^a   Li, Sicong ^a   Chi, Tian ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4 GENE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PROBE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84872182773     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201278     Document Type: Article

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