Critical role of IRF1 and BATF in forming chromatin landscape during type 1 regulatory cell differentiation

Nature Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 412-421

  Karwacz, Katarzyna ^a   Miraldi, Emily R ^b,c   Pokrovskii, Maria ^c   Madi, Asaf ^a   Yosef, Nir ^d   Wortman, Ivo ^e   Chen, Xi ^f   Watters, Aaron ^b   Carriero, Nicholas ^b   Awasthi, Amit ^g   Regev, Aviv ^e   Bonneau, Richard ^b,f   Littman, Dan ^c   Kuchroo, Vijay K ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FLATIRON INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Translational Health Science and Technology Institute   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 27; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BATF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BATF PROTEIN, MOUSE; CHROMATIN; CYTOKINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-1; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85011685238     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3683     Document Type: Article

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