Epigenetic regulation of individual modules of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus 3' regulatory region

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Birshtein, Barbara K ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Class switch recombination; CTCF; Enhancers; Immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus; Insulators; Pax5; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; DELETION MUTANT; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DEMETHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE LOCUS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84900873309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00163     Document Type: Review

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