Mammalian methyl-binding proteins: What might they do?

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1025-1032

  Joulie, Michael ^a   Miotto, Benoit ^a   Defossez, Pierre Antoine ^a  

^a Université Sorbonne Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Gene expression; Mammals; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MAMMAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649513916     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000057     Document Type: Article

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