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Regulation of T cell receptor beta gene rearrangements and allelic exclusion by the helix-loop-helix protein, E47.
Immunity - 1 Dec 2007
Agata Yasutoshi, Tamaki Nobuyuki, Sakamoto Shuji, Ikawa Tomokatsu, Masuda Kyoko, Kawamoto Hiroshi, Murre Cornelis
Abstract excerpt
Allelic exclusion of antigen-receptor genes is ensured primarily by monoallelic locus activation upon rearrangement and subsequently by feedback inhibition of continued rearrangement. Here, we demonstrated that the basic helix-loop-helix protein, E47, promoted T cell receptor beta (TCRbeta) gene rearrangement by directly binding to target gene segments to increase chromatin accessibility in a dosage-sensitive...
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