[HTML][HTML] The molecular basis of MeCP2 function in the brain

R Tillotson, A Bird - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
MeCP2 is a reader of the DNA methylome that occupies a large proportion of the genome
due to its high abundance and the frequency of its target sites. It has been the subject of …

DNA modification readers and writers and their interplay

C Rausch, FD Hastert, MC Cardoso - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstracts Genomic DNA is modified in a postreplicative manner and several modifications,
the enzymes responsible for their deposition as well as proteins that read these …

Radically truncated MeCP2 rescues Rett syndrome-like neurological defects

R Tillotson, J Selfridge, MV Koerner, KKE Gadalla… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Heterozygous mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene cause the neurological disorder Rett
syndrome. The methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) protein is an epigenetic reader …

MeCP2 recognizes cytosine methylated tri-nucleotide and di-nucleotide sequences to tune transcription in the mammalian brain

S Lagger, JC Connelly, G Schweikert, S Webb… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Mutations in the gene encoding the methyl-CG binding protein MeCP2 cause several
neurological disorders including Rett syndrome. The di-nucleotide methyl-CG (mCG) is the …

Rett Syndrome and MECP2 Duplication Syndrome: Disorders of MeCP2 Dosage

BE Collins, JL Neul - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused predominantly by loss-of-
function mutations in the gene Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2), which encodes the …

MeCP2 and chromatin compartmentalization

A Schmidt, H Zhang, MC Cardoso - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is a multifunctional epigenetic reader playing a role
in transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure, which was linked to Rett syndrome in …

MeCP2 binds to methylated DNA independently of phase separation and heterochromatin organisation

R Pantier, M Brown, S Han, K Paton, S Meek… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Correlative evidence has suggested that the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 contributes
to the formation of heterochromatin condensates via liquid-liquid phase separation. This …

Phenotypic and protein localization heterogeneity associated with AHDC1 pathogenic protein‐truncating alleles in Xia–Gibbs syndrome

MM Khayat, H Li, V Chander, J Hu… - Human …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Xia–Gibbs syndrome (XGS) is a rare Mendelian disease typically caused by de novo stop‐
gain or frameshift mutations in the AT‐hook DNA binding motif containing 1 (AHDC1) gene …

Modular arrangements of sequence motifs determine the functional diversity of KDM proteins

Z Wang, D Liu, B Xu, R Tian, Y Zuo - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Histone lysine demethylases (KDMs) play a vital role in regulating chromatin dynamics and
transcription. KDM proteins are given modular activities by its sequence motifs with obvious …

Affinity for DNA contributes to NLS independent nuclear localization of MeCP2

MJ Lyst, R Ekiert, J Guy, J Selfridge, MV Koerner… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
MeCP2 is a nuclear protein that is mutated in the severe neurological disorder Rett
syndrome (RTT). The ability to target β-galactosidase to the nucleus was previously used to …