The interface between transcriptional and epigenetic control of effector and memory CD8+ T-cell differentiation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 157-168

  Gray, Simon M ^a   Kaech, Susan M ^a,b   Staron, Matthew M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD8; Differentiation; Effector; Epigenetic; Memory; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA METHYLATION; EFFECTOR CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN CLEARANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFECTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84905984263     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12205     Document Type: Article

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