Functional analyses of MeCP2 mutations associated with Rett syndrome using transient expression systems

Brain and Development

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2001, Pages

  Kudo, Shinichi ^a   Nomura, Yoshiko ^b   Segawa, Masaya ^b   Fujita, Naoyuki ^c   Nakao, Mitsuyoshi ^c   Dragich, Joanna ^d   Schanen, Carolyn ^d   Tamura, Masahide ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Segawa Neurological Clinic for Children   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin staining; MeCP2; Mutation; Rett syndrome; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL STRAIN L 929; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RETT SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETT SYNDROME;

EID: 0035198117     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(01)00345-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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