Dynamic recruitment of Ets1 to both nucleosome-occupied and -depleted enhancer regions mediates a transcriptional program switch during early T-cell differentiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3567-3585

  Cauchy, Pierre ^a,b,c,d   Maqbool, Muhammad A ^e   Zacarias Cabeza, Joaquin ^a,b,c   Vanhille, Laurent ^d   Koch, Frederic ^a,b,c   Fenouil, Romain ^a,b,c   Gut, Marta ^f   Gut, Ivo ^f   Santana, Maria A ^a,b,c,h   Griffon, Aurélien ^d   Imbert, Jean ^d   Moraes Cabé, Carolina ^g   Bories, Jean Christophe ^g   Ferrier, Pierre ^a,b,c   Spicuglia, Salvatore ^d   Andrau, Jean Christophe ^e  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d Aix Marseille university   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^h UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRANSCRIPTOME; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ETS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HNF1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEOSOME; RUNX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-ALPHA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-1; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84966320676     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1475     Document Type: Article

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