Expression and functions of long noncoding RNAs during human T helper cell differentiation

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Spurlock, Charles F ^a   Tossberg, John T ^a   Guo, Yan ^a   Collier, Sarah P ^a   Crooke, Philip S ^b   Aune, Thomas M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; CYTOKINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA LIGASE; IL4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RAD50 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVERLAPPING GENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAD50 GENE; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNTENY; T CELL CULTURE; TH2 CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOKINES; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TH1 CELLS; TH17 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84928501426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7932     Document Type: Article

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