MBD2 is a transcriptional repressor belonging to the MeCP1 histone deacetylase complex

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-61

  Ng, Huck Hui ^a   Zhang, Yi ^b   Hendrich, Brian ^a   Johnson, Colin A ^c   Turner, Bryan M ^c   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^d   Tempst, Paul ^d   Reinberg, Danny ^b   Bird, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DINUCLEOTIDE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032871399     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12659     Document Type: Article

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