Recent thymic emigrants and mature naive T cells exhibit differential DNA methylation at key cytokine loci

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6180-6186

  Berkley, Amy M ^a   Hendricks, Deborah W ^a,b   Simmons, Kalynn B ^a   Fink, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DNA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CPG ISLAND; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOKINES; DNA METHYLATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMOCYTES;

EID: 84879101247     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300181     Document Type: Article

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