Making the case for chromatin profiling: A new tool to investigate the immune-regulatory landscape

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 585-594

  Winter, Deborah R ^a   Jung, Steffen ^a   Amit, Ido ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHROMATIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTES; MACROPHAGES;

EID: 84940448609     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3884     Document Type: Review

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