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Preparing the target for the bullet

Multiple regulatory cascades control inflammatory gene expression. The responsive loci need to be prepared to bind the inducing regulatory factors, and such changes can be invoked by p38-dependent histone modification.

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Figure 1: Model for p38-dependent NF-κB recruitment at the IL-8 or MCP-1 promoter.

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Muegge, K. Preparing the target for the bullet. Nat Immunol 3, 16–17 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0102-16

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