The Treg-specific demethylated region stabilizes Foxp3 expression independently of NF-κB signaling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Schreiber, Lisa ^a   Pietzsch, Beate ^a   Floess, Stefan ^a   Farah, Carla ^a   Jänsch, Lothar ^a   Schmitz, Ingo ^a,b   Huehn, Jochen ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FOXP3 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREG SPECIFIC DEMETHYLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NF-KAPPA B; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84895540450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088318     Document Type: Article

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