Human Cytomegalovirus Drives Epigenetic Imprinting of the IFNG Locus in NKG2Chi Natural Killer Cells

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Luetke Eversloh, Merlin ^a   Hammer, Quirin ^a   Durek, Pawel ^a   Nordström, Karl ^b   Gasparoni, Gilles ^b   Pink, Matthias ^a   Hamann, Alf ^a   Walter, Jörn ^b   Chang, Hyun Dong ^a   Dong, Jun ^a   Romagnani, Chiara ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD57 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GENOMIC DNA; CD56 ANTIGEN; KLRC2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL LECTIN LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY C;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION ASSAY; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEMETHYLATION; EPIGENETIC IMPRINTING; EPIGENETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TH1 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

ANTIGENS, CD56; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY C;

EID: 84908348687     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004441     Document Type: Article

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