Dependence of transcriptional repression on CpG methylation density

CL Hsieh - Molecular and cellular biology, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
methylation is graded versus all or none. That is, does the methylated state correlate with
transcriptional repression in … HSV tk promoter site becomes demethylated in the 7%methylated

[PDF][PDF] Mechanisms of transcriptional repression by histone lysine methylation

P Hublitz, M Albert, A Hfmpeters… - International Journal of …, 2009 - researchgate.net
… We mainly focus on the dynamics of activating H3K4 and repressive H3K27 methylation
marks at promoter sequences. The genomic data serve as a foundation to understand the …

Methyl CpG‐binding proteins and transcriptional repression

PA Wade - Bioessays, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… mechanisms that might lead to transcriptional repression at methylated loci. Certain … (34)
In contrast, a recent biochemical analysis of MBD occupancy on a methylated promoter in the …

MCAF mediates MBD1-dependent transcriptional repression

N Fujita, S Watanabe, T Ichimura… - … and cellular biology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
… Our findings suggest that MBD1 directly prevents transcription from methylated promoters
in a histone deacetylation-independent manner, through interacting with MCAF. …

[HTML][HTML] Role of DNA methylation in stable gene repression

L Lande-Diner, J Zhang, I Ben-Porath… - Journal of Biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
… genes with methylated promoters did not seem to be affected by the lack of Dnmt1 in these
analyses, giving the impression that DNA methylation may not play a role in their repression. …

How does DNA methylation repress transcription?

SU Kass, D Pruss, AP Wolffe - Trends in Genetics, 1997 - cell.com
transcriptional repression on unmethylated promoters in cis 6-39. This observation is consistent
with MeCP2 containing DNA-binding and transcriptional repression … binding to promoter

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

J Boyes, A Bird - The EMBO journal, 1992 - embopress.org
… The experiments implicating MeCP-1 in transcriptional repression involved promoters
that are rich in methyl-CpG. The known preference of MeCP-1 for multiple methyl-CpGs on a …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin dysregulation and DNA methylation at transcription start sites associated with transcriptional repression in cancers

M Ando, Y Saito, G Xu, NQ Bui… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… that HPVOPSCC have higher levels of gene promoter methylation compared with HPV-negative …
of transcriptional repression from DNA methylation at conventional promoter regions in …

Methyl‐CpG‐binding proteins: Targeting specific gene repression

E Ballestar, AP Wolffe - European journal of biochemistry, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… , methylated DNA is associated with transcriptional repression … of MeCP2 as a transcriptional
repressor in chromatin as a two-… transcription in vitro and in vivo from methylated promoters

The role of epigenetic transcription repression and DNA methyltransferases in cancer

FI Daniel, K Cherubini, LS Yurgel, MAZ de Figueiredo… - Cancer, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
methylation in tumorigenesis have been proposed. First, weakening of transcriptional repression
… According to the Knudson 2-hit hypothesis, promoter methylation may occur on a gene