MeCP2 is a transcriptional repressor with abundant binding sites in genomic chromatin

Cell

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 471-481

  Nan, Xinsheng ^a   Campoy, F Javier ^a,b   Bird, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0342437491     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81887-5     Document Type: Article

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