Hypersensitive site 6 of the Th2 locus control region is essential for Th2 cytokine expression

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6955-6960

  Williams, Adam ^a   Lee, Gap Ryol ^b   Spilianakis, Charalampos G ^c   Hwang, Soo Seok ^b   Eisenbarth, Stephanie C ^a   Flavell, Richard A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Sogang University   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; RAD50 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE; TH2 CELL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOKINES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; OVALBUMIN; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH2 CELLS;

MUS;

EID: 84876841993     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304720110     Document Type: Article

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