Genome-wide Analysis Identifies Bcl6-Controlled Regulatory Networks during T Follicular Helper Cell Differentiation

Cell Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1735-1747

  Liu, Xindong ^a,b   Lu, Huiping ^a   Chen, Tingting ^c   Nallaparaju, Kalyan C ^d   Yan, Xiaowei ^e   Tanaka, Shinya ^f   Ichiyama, Kenji ^d   Zhang, Xia ^b   Zhang, Li ^d   Wen, Xiaofeng ^c   Tian, Qiang ^e   Bian, Xiu wu ^b   Jin, Wei ^a   Wei, Lai ^c   Dong, Chen ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 6; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; BCL6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CYTOSINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; STAT5A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BCL6 GENE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME WIDE ANALYSIS; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; T FOLLICULAR HELPER CELL; TH9 CELL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GERMINAL CENTER; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKINS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-6; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84959088532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.01.038     Document Type: Article

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