The DNA methyltransferases associate with HP1 and the SUV39H1 histone methyltransferase

F Fuks, PJ Hurd, R Deplus… - Nucleic acids research, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… are directly linked to histone methylation. We find that … the methylCpG‐binding protein
MeCP2 associates with histone … themselves could be linked to histone methylation. To test this …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenetic regulator: methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 1 (MBD1)

L Li, BF Chen, WY Chan - International journal of molecular sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
… The dual-affinity to both methylated DNA and unmethylated … methylation of the gene promoter
and modulation of histone. … to associate DNA methylation with histone modification and …

Mechanism of transcriptional regulation by methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1

N Fujita, N Shimotake, I Ohki, T Chiba… - … and cellular biology, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… MBD2 is a transcriptional repressor which is associated with histone … of methylated DNA
complexed with the methyl-CpG binding domain of MBD1. Unmethylated (−) and methylated

Histone methylation versus histone acetylation: new insights into epigenetic regulation

JC Rice, CD Allis - Current opinion in cell biology, 2001 - Elsevier
… The methylation of cytosines in CpG island promoters is … the methyl modification of histones
may prove to be as significant in the regulation of chromatin structure and function as histone

A common mode of recognition for methylated CpG

Y Liu, X Zhang, RM Blumenthal, X Cheng - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2013 - cell.com
… vertebrate DNA methylation, however it is not known how methylated CpG within particular
… Two recent structures of C2H2 zinc finger (ZnF) proteins in complex with methylated DNA …

Epigenetic regulation of nervous system development by DNA methylation and histone deacetylation

JL MacDonald, AJ Roskams - Progress in neurobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
… for DNA methylation and histone deacetylation … methyl CpG binding activity identified and
defined functionally as “an activity that could bind methylated DNA in solution” was methyl-CpG

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation and histone deacetylation in the control of gene expression: basic biochemistry to human development and disease

A El-Osta, AP Wolffe - Gene expression, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
methyl-CpG should show an increase in the abundance of histone H1, whereas DNA
sequences lacking methyl-CpG … that histone H1 can interact preferentially with methylated naked …

Methyl-CpG-binding protein MBD2 plays a key role in maintenance and spread of DNA methylation at CpG islands and shores in cancer

C Stirzaker, JZ Song, W Ng, Q Du, NJ Armstrong… - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
… Here, we show that MBD2 not only binds to histone deacetylase HDAC1 (as also reported
by others), 11, 27 but also binds to the maintenance methyltransferase (DNMT1) and de novo …

The many faces of histone lysine methylation

M Lachner, T Jenuwein - Current opinion in cell biology, 2002 - Elsevier
… implications of histone methylation; in particular through the characterisation of histone … in
mammals seems more complex and involves CpG, CpNpG and asymmetric DNA methylation. …

The effect of histone H1 and DNA methylation on transcription

CA Johnson, JP Goddard, RLP Adams - Biochemical Journal, 1995 - portlandpress.com
… The effects of histone modification and DNA modification, specifically the methylation of DNA
at CpG dinucleotides, … template was still observed,despite a reduced methyl CpG density. …