The chromatin landscape and transcription factors in T cell programming

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 195-204

  Rothenberg, Ellen V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory element; Genomics; Histone modification; T cell development

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHROMATIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84899958196     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: 14714981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2014.03.001     Document Type: Review

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