Conserved Intergenic Elements and DNA Methylation Cooperate to Regulate Transcription at the il17 Locus

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Naive CD4(+) T cells can differentiate into distinct lineages with unique immune functions. The cytokines TGFβ and IL-6 promote the development of Th17 cells that produce IL-17, an inflammatory cytokine not expressed by other T helper lineages. To further understand how IL-17 production is controlled, we studied an ~120-kb genomic region containing the murine il17a and il17f genes and seven evolutionarily...

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