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SUBMITTER: Thomas RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3408191 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thomas Rajan M RM Sai Hong H Wells Andrew D AD
The Journal of biological chemistry 20120604 30
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 conserved, intergenic noncoding sequences. We show that the +28-kb noncoding sequence coope ...[more]