Eomesodermin promotes interferon-γ expression and binds to multiple conserved noncoding sequences across the Ifng locus in mouse thymoma cell lines

Genes to Cells

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 146-162

  Fukuoka, Natsuki ^a   Harada, Misuzu ^a   Nishida, Ai ^a   Ito, Yuko ^a   Shiota, Hideki ^b   Kataoka, Takao ^a,b  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOMESODERMIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IONOMYCIN; LUCIFERASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; EOMES PROTEIN, MOUSE; IFNG PROTEIN, MOUSE; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONSERVED NONCODING SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IFNG; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOMA CELL LINE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THYMOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; IONOMYCIN; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84956830225     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12328     Document Type: Article

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