DNA methylation in the gene body influences MeCP2-mediated gene repression
Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein gene, MECP2. MeCP2 is a methyl-cytosine binding protein that is proposed to function as a transcriptional repressor. However, multiple gene expression studies comparing wild-type and MeCP2-deficient neurons have failed to identify gene expression changes consistent with loss of a classical transcriptional repressor. Recent work suggests that one function of MeCP2 in neuron...
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- DNA methylation in the gene body influences MeCP2-mediated gene... 2016 · 133 cites
- MeCP2 Represses Enhancers through Chromosome Topology-Associated... 2019 · 80 cites
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