The enhancer and promoter landscape of human regulatory and conventional T-cell subpopulations

Blood

Volumn 123, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  Schmidl, Christian ^a,g   Hansmann, Leo ^a,h   Lassmann, Timo ^b,c   Balwierz, Piotr J ^d   Kawaji, Hideya ^b,c,e   Itoh, Masayoshi ^b,c,e   Kawai, Jun ^b,e   Nagao Sato, Sayaka ^b   Suzuki, Harukazu ^b,c   Andreesen, Reinhard ^a,f   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^b,e   Forrest, Alistair R R ^b,c   Carninci, Piero ^b,c   Hoffmann, Petra ^a,f   Edinger, Matthias ^a,f   Rehli, Michael ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b RIKEN Omics Science Center   (Japan)

^c Division of Genomic Technologies   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

^f Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunology   (Germany)

^g ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; HISTONE H3; INTERLEUKIN 35; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HISTONE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; LYSINE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SORTER; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GERMINAL CENTER; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LANDSCAPE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BINDING SITE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; JURKAT CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; JURKAT CELLS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84898022503     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-02-486944     Document Type: Article

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