Identification of a novel cis-regulatory element essential for immune tolerance

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1993-2002

  LaFlam, Taylor N ^a   Seumois, Grégory ^c   Miller, Corey N ^a   Lwin, Wint ^a   Fasano, Kayla J ^a   Waterfield, Michael ^a   Proekt, Irina ^b   Vijayanand, Pandurangan ^c   Anderson, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYTOKERATIN 10; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUIDE RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INVOLUCRIN; MESSENGER RNA; DNA; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING SITE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; EXON; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MARKOV CHAIN; MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NF-KAPPA B; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84961281515     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20151069     Document Type: Article

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