MethylCpG‐binding proteins: Targeting specific gene repression

E Ballestar, AP Wolffe - European journal of biochemistry, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… MBD2 are involved in histone deacetylase-dependent repression and it is likely that this is …
histone deacetylases to methyl CpG-enriched regions in the genome to repress transcription. …

Methyl CpG‐binding proteins and transcriptional repression

PA Wade - Bioessays, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… animals result from alterations in patterns of gene expression. The lack of any molecular …
thusfar) to demonstrate any alterations in gene expression in the MeCP2 and MBD2 null animals…

Repression of genes by DNA methylation depends on CpG density and promoter strength: evidence for involvement of a methylCpG binding protein.

J Boyes, A Bird - The EMBO journal, 1992 - embopress.org
… on genes with a low density of methyl-CpG. We found thatsparse methylation could repress
transfected genes … Densely methylated genes, however, could not be reactivated by the …

Dependence of transcriptional repression on CpG methylation density

CL Hsieh - Molecular and cellular biology, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In this study, the level of gene expression as a function of the degree of CpG methylation
was determined. Minichromosomes with four differentCpG densities, ie, 0% methylation, 7% …

Gene silencing by methylCpG‐binding proteins

X Nan, S Cross, A Bird - Novartis Foundation Symposium 214 …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… An important consequence of CpG methylation is the local silencing of gene expression.
In … for methyl-CpG. We have studied two proteins that bind to methylated DNA, methyl-CpG-…

[HTML][HTML] Specific Methyl-CpG configurations define cell identity through gene expression regulation

T Improda, V Morgera, M Vitale, L Chiariotti… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
genes to their expression profiles, we determined the methyl-CpG configurations of the
promoters of five genes … stable methyl-CpG profiles associated with silencing or activation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Role of human ribosomal RNA (rRNA) promoter methylation and of methyl-CpG-binding protein MBD2 in the suppression of rRNA gene expression

K Ghoshal, S Majumder, J Datta, T Motiwala… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
… To study the effect of CpG methylation on RNA polymerase I (pol I)-transcribed rRNA genes,
… to optimize pol I-driven reporter gene expression. Transfection of this plasmid into HepG2 (…

Epigenetic regulation of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene expression by histone acetylation and methyl-CpG binding proteins

RP Danam, SR Howell, TP Brent, LC Harris - Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2005 - AACR
Epigenetic regulation of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene expression by
histone acetylation and methyl-CpG binding proteins | Molecular Cancer Therapeutics | …

Cell-type-specific repression by methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 is biased toward long genes

K Sugino, CM Hempel, BW Okaty… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
… Here, by profiling discrete subtypes of neurons we uncovered more dramatic effects of
MeCP2 on gene expression, overcoming the “dilution problem” associated with assaying …

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

F Yu, J Thiesen, WH Strätling - Nucleic acids research, 2000 - academic.oup.com
… and crucial for processes like imprinting, repression of gene activity and cancer. It has
been … methylated CpGs. The first reported member of this group of proteins is methyl-CpG-binding …