Bach2 represses plasma cell gene regulatory network in B cells to promote antibody class switch
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Bach2 represses plasma cell gene regulatory network in B cells to promote antibody class switch.
Two transcription factors, Pax5 and Blimp-1, form a gene regulatory network (GRN) with a double-negative loop, which defines either B-cell (Pax5 high) or plasma cell (Blimp-1 high) status as a binary switch. However, it is unclear how this B-cell GRN registers class switch DNA recombination (CSR), an event that takes place before the terminal differentiation to plasma cells. In the absence of B...
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عنوان ژورنال: The EMBO Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0261-4189,1460-2075
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.257