Differential roles of epigenetic changes and Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cell-specific transcriptional regulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5289-5294

  Morikawa, Hiromasa ^a,b   Ohkura, Naganari ^a   Vandenbon, Alexis ^a   Itoh, Masayoshi ^c   Nagao Sato, Sayaka ^c   Kawaji, Hideya ^c   Lassmann, Timo ^c   Carninci, Piero ^c   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^c   Forrest, Alistair R R ^c   Standley, Daron M ^a   Date, Hiroshi ^b   Sakaguchi, Shimon ^a,d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SELECTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; STEADY STATE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN-REGULATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898025820     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312717110     Document Type: Article

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