Methylation-mediated transcriptional silencing in euchromatin by methyl- CpG binding protein MBD1 isoforms

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 6415-6426

  Fujita, Naoyuki ^a,b   Takebayashi, Shin Ichiro ^c   Okumura, Katsuzumi ^c   Kudo, Shinichi ^d   Chiba, Tsutomu ^b   Saya, Hideyuki ^a   Nakao, Mitsuyoshi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UVOMORULIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0032772371     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.9.6415     Document Type: Article

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