Methyl CpG‐binding proteins and transcriptional repression

PA Wade - Bioessays, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… cells has been correlated with transcriptional repression and with specialized chromatin …
protein factors with a highly conserved DNA interaction surface, termed the methyl CpG-binding

Mechanisms of transcriptional repression

F Rojo - Current opinion in microbiology, 2001 - Elsevier
… of transcription repression can be best understood when considering that transcription
RNAP, a TATA-box-binding protein, and a factor termed transcription factor B (TFB), which …

Transcriptional repression in eukaryotes: repressors and repression mechanisms

K Gaston, PS Jayaraman - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 2003 - Springer
… In this review we have considered enzymes that posttranslationally modify DNA-binding
proteins, chromatin-binding proteins or components of the PIC as repressors. Clearly, many of …

Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex

X Nan, HH Ng, CA Johnson, CD Laherty, BM Turner… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
transcriptional repression 7,8,9 . Here we study the mechanism of repression by MeCP2,
an abundant nuclear protein … MeCP2 binds tightly to chromosomes in a methylation-dependent …

Histone deacetylase-independent transcriptional repression by methyl-CpG-binding protein 2

F Yu, J Thiesen, WH Strätling - Nucleic acids research, 2000 - academic.oup.com
… a truncated protein lacking segments D and E… transcriptional repression of the SV40
enhancer/promoter. In contrast, mutation of segments D and E only weakly relieved trans-repressing

C-Terminal binding protein is a transcriptional repressor that interacts with a specific class of vertebrate Polycomb proteins

RGAB Sewalt, MJ Gunster, J van der Vlag… - … and cellular biology, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Similarly, we find that CtBP binds with HPC2 and … a transcriptional repressor. The results
are discussed in terms of a model that brings together PcG-mediated repression and repression

Transcriptional repression: the long and the short of it

AJ Courey, S Jia - Genes & development, 2001 - genesdev.cshlp.org
… The zen ventral repression region shown here contains binding sites for multiple DNA-binding
proteins including Dorsal and Dead ringer, which may function together to cooperatively …

[PDF][PDF] Sinful repression

AP Wolffe - Nature, 1997 - belairheightsop.net
transcriptional repression by allowing transcription factors access to recognition elements.
Conversely, deacetylation of the histones stabilizes the repressed … The CREB-binding protein (…

The recombination signal sequence-binding protein RBP-2N functions as a transcriptional repressor

S Dou, XY Zeng, P Cortes… - … and cellular biology, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
binding sites are present in a number of cellular and viral promoters, so RBP-2N may have a
general role in transcriptional repressionprotein is capable of repressing pIX transcription in …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional repression: conserved and evolved features

S Payankaulam, LM Li, DN Arnosti - Current biology, 2010 - cell.com
transcription machinery bears a strong resemblance to that of eukaryotes, transcriptional
repression … in bacteria, whereby DNA-binding proteins directly target basal machinery at the …