Transcriptional and Epigenetic Control of Regulatory T Cell Development

Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-33

  Kitagawa, Yohko ^a   Wing, James Badger ^a   Sakaguchi, Shimon ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetic modification; Foxp3; Transcription factors; Treg cell development

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMETHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84939839985     PISSN: 18771173     EISSN: 18780814     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2015.07.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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