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ReviewAdvances in immunology2008

Cis-regulatory elements and epigenetic changes control genomic rearrangements of the IgH locus.

Thomas Perlot, Frederick W Alt

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Review in Advances in immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
12.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The IgHFrontiers in immunology · 2023
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  7. AID hits the jackpot when missing the target.Current opinion in immunology · 2016
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  8. Sequential activation and distinct functions for distal and proximal modules within the IgH 3' regulatory region.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  9. CTCF-binding elements 1 and 2 in the Igh intergenic control region cooperatively regulate V(D)J recombination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  13. Epigenetic control of immunity.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Thomas PerlotThe Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Frederick W Alt
Harvard University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

The Role of BCL-6 in Berminal Center FormationP01CA092625 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI SHIPP, MARGARET A · 2001 to 2011
$32.9M
Transcriptional Regulation of the Allergic ResponseP01AI031541 · NIAID · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI GEHA, RAIF SALIM · 1999 to 2007
$8.0M
ASSEMBLY AND EXPRESSION OF IG VARIBLE REGION GENESR37AI020047 · NIAID · IMMUNE DISEASE INSTITUTE, INC. · PI ALT, FREDERICK W · 1991 to 2000
$323k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS P01 CA092625NCI NIH HHS P01CA092625-05NIAID NIH HHS 2P01AI031541-15NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI031541NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI020047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunoglobulin variable region exons are assembled from discontinuous variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) segments by the process of V(D)J recombination. V(D)J rearrangements of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) locus are tightly controlled in a tissue-specific, ordered and allele-specific manner by regulating accessibility of V, D, and J segments to the recombination activating gene proteins which are the specific components of the V(D)J recombinase. In this review we discuss recent advances and established models brought forward to explain the mechanisms underlying accessibility control of V(D)J recombination, including research on germline transcripts, spatial organization, and chromatin modifications of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) locus. Furthermore, we review the functions of well-described and potential new cis-regulatory elements with regard to processes such as V(D)J recombination, allelic exclusion, and IgH class switch recombination.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticAnimalsChromatinExonsGene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy ChainGenes, ImmunoglobulinHumansImmunoglobulin Class SwitchingRecombination, GeneticRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidSomatic Hypermutation, ImmunoglobulinVDJ RecombinasesChromatinVDJ Recombinases

Identifiers

PMID19117530
PMCPMC3115588
OpenAlexW1575171972

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