Inducible chromatin priming is associated with the establishment of immunological memory in T cells

EMBO Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 515-535

  Bevington, Sarah L ^a   Cauchy, Pierre ^a   Piper, Jason ^b   Bertrand, Elisabeth ^c   Lalli, Naveen ^b   Jarvis, Rebecca C ^a   Gilding, Liam Niall ^a   Ott, Sascha ^b   Bonifer, Constanze ^a   Cockerill, Peter N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chromatin; epigenetics; gene regulation; immunity; memory T cell

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; CCL1 CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR6; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; CONCANAVALIN A; CXCL3 CHEMOKINE; EOTAXIN 2; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 19; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 20; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 27; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 31; INTERLEUKIN 9; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3BETA; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX; CCL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CHROMATIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ETS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; IL3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RUNX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SURFACE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER REGION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; JURKAT CELL LINE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; STEADY STATE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; SPLEEN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CCL1; CHROMATIN; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-3; JURKAT CELLS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-1; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 84959346645     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201592534     Document Type: Article

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