The Third Intron of the Interferon Regulatory Factor-8 Is an Initiator of Repressed Chromatin Restricting Its Expression in Non-Immune Cells

• Mamduh Khateb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mamduh Khateb, Nitsan Fourier

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Nitsan Fourier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mamduh Khateb, Nitsan Fourier

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Ofer Barnea-Yizhar,

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Sigal Ram,

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Ekaterina Kovalev,

  Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Aviva Azriel,

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Ulfert Rand,

  Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Manabu Nakayama,

  Affiliation Department of Technology Development, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa-Kamatari, Kazusa, Japan

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• Hansjörg Hauser,

  Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Lior Gepstein,

  Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Ben-Zion Levi

  * E-mail: blevi@technion.ac.il

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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