… CpGs in vitro and in vivo. In this chapter, we focus on the three major families of methyl-CpG-binding …
We discuss the structural bases of methyl-CpG recognition, the function and specific …

… our understanding of the function of DNA methylation, DNA methyltransferases, and methyl-CpG
binding proteins in vertebrate embryonic development. MBDs function in transcriptional …

… (for methyl-CpG binding protein 2) [8]. Our current knowledge of the biological function of …
In this review we describe the functions of MeCP2 and its relatives, the methyl-CpG-binding …

… This section will cover the functions of the individual members of each family that are … This
review has highlighted the many and intricate roles that MBPs play in human biology. Primarily…

… While these are likely to be biologically significant regulatory … methyl CpG dinucleotide by a
conserved family of proteins, the … bona fide methyl CpG-binding protein, a function lost during …

… Biological functions of the MBD proteins in epigenetic regulation have been studied over
several … surface contacting mDNA and are responsible for recognition of the methyl-CpG steps. …

… biology (Bestor, 2000; Robertson and Wolffe, 2000; Hendrich and Bird, 2000), this review
will focus instead on proteins that function … focus on methyl CpG binding proteins in animals. …

… Biological functions of DNA methylation have been intensively studied over several decades…
genomes include DNA methylation as part of more complex regulatory functions [16, 17]. …

… number and diversity of methyl-CpG binding proteins encoded in … against mutation, the
methyl-CpG binding proteins could … We will review the function of methyl-CpG binding proteins in …

… To investigate the function of MBD1, we utilized promoter-associated CpG islands from human
genes, imprintedSNRPN (Citation34), and tumor suppressor p16as described previously (…