An anti-silencer- and SATB1-dependent chromatin hub regulates Rag1 and Rag2 gene expression during thymocyte development

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 809-824

  Hao, Bingtao ^a,d   Naik, Abani Kanta ^a   Watanabe, Akiko ^a   Tanaka, Hirokazu ^b   Chen, Liang ^a   Richards, Hunter W ^c   Kondo, Motonari ^a,e   Taniuchi, Ichiro ^b   Kohwi, Yoshinori ^c   Kohwi Shigematsu, Terumi ^c   Krangel, Michael S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION BINDING PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SATB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTI SILENCER ELEMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER ELEMENT; THYMOCYTE; THYMOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; VDJ RECOMBINATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION BINDING PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; THYMOCYTES;

EID: 84946401108     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20142207     Document Type: Article

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