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Luis O Correa1, Martha S Jordan2, Shannon A Carty3.
Abstract
T lymphocytes undergo carefully orchestrated programming during development in the thymus and subsequently during differentiation in the periphery. This intricate specification allows for cell-type and context-specific transcriptional programs that regulate immune responses to infection and malignancy. Epigenetic changes, including histone modifications and covalent modification of DNA itself through DNA methylation, are now recognized to play a critical role in these cell-fate decisions. DNA methylation is mediated primarily by the actions of the DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) and ten-eleven-translocation (TET) families of epigenetic enzymes. In this review, we discuss the role of DNA methylation and its enzymatic regulators in directing the development and differentiation of CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32749092 PMCID: PMC8048391 DOI: 10.1615/CritRevImmunol.2020033728
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Crit Rev Immunol ISSN: 1040-8401 Impact factor: 1.735