The DNA-binding factor Ctcf critically controls gene expression in macrophages

Cellular and Molecular Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-70

  Nikolic, Tatjana ^a,b   Movita, Dowty ^a   Lambers, Margaretha E H ^a   De Almeida, Claudia Ribeiro ^a,c   Biesta, Paula ^a   Kreefft, Kim ^a   De Bruijn, Marjolein J W ^a   Bergen, Ingrid ^a   Galjart, Niels ^a   Boonstra, Andre ^a   Hendriks, Rudi ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ctcf; IL 10 locus; Macrophage; Myeloid; TLR

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 20; INTERLEUKIN 24; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; LYSOZYME; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTCF GENE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LOXP SITE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTEGRASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYELOID CELLS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 84891808286     PISSN: 16727681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cmi.2013.41     Document Type: Article

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