Epigenetic Regulation in Immune Cells
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 3863
Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past two decades, epigenetics research has exploded from being a disparate collection of biological phenomena to a fully-fledged and enthusiastically studied field. In more recent years, the field has expanded beyond studies of DNA methylation and post-translational modifications of histones to include DNA accessibility and three-dimensional genome organisation, among others.
In this Special Issue, we welcome original articles or reviews focusing on the role of epigenetics in immune cell function and differentiation. These cells are of particular interest as they have both diverse and well-understood functions, but also differentiate from a common progenitor along well-defined developmental pathways. Thus, immune lineages provide a perfect system to study natural epigenetic processes, as well as the consequences of artificial epigenetic modulation.
Dr. Christine Keenan
Dr. Timothy M. Johanson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- epigenetics
- histones
- methylation
- acetylation
- genome organisation
- immune cell function
- immune cell differentiation
