The transcriptional regulator Aire coopts the repressive ATF7ip-MBD1 complex for the induction of immunotolerance

Nature Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 258-265

  Waterfield, Michael ^a,b   Khan, Imran S ^a   Cortez, Jessica T ^a   Fan, Una ^a   Metzger, Todd ^a   Greer, Alexandra ^b   Fasano, Kayla ^a   Martinez Llordella, Marc ^c   Pollack, Joshua L ^b   Erle, David J ^b   Su, Maureen ^d   Anderson, Mark S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTRAL TOLERANCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84894431935     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2820     Document Type: Article

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