A Role for MeCP2 in Switching Gene Activity via Chromatin Unfolding and HP1γ Displacement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Brink, Maartje C ^a   Piebes, Diewertje G E ^a   de Groote, Marloes L ^b   Luijsterburg, Martijn S ^a   Casas Delucchi, Corella S ^c   van Driel, Roel ^a   Rots, Marianne G ^b   Cardoso, M Cristina ^c   Verschure, Pernette J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1 GAMMA; LACTOSE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LACTOSE OPERON; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880762956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069347     Document Type: Article

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