MBD2 binds methylcytosine in chromatin

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R-HSA-427337
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Reaction [binding]
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Homo sapiens
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Methyl Binding Domain protein 2 (MBD2) binds 5-methylcytosine residues in DNA (Ng et al. 1999) and may recruit further silencing complexes. MBD2 has been shown to specifically bind 5-methylcytosine in the promoters of rRNA gene copies to reduce promoter activity (Ghoshal et al. 2004).
Literature References
PubMed ID Title Journal Year
10471499 MBD2 is a transcriptional repressor belonging to the MeCP1 histone deacetylase complex

Erdjument-Bromage, H, Zhang, Y, Ng, HH, Reinberg, D, Bird, A, Turner, BM, Tempst, P, Hendrich, B, Johnson, CA

Nat. Genet. 1999
14610093 Role of human ribosomal RNA (rRNA) promoter methylation and of methyl-CpG-binding protein MBD2 in the suppression of rRNA gene expression

Majumder, S, Bai, S, Ghoshal, K, Motiwala, T, Sharma, SM, Datta, J, Jacob, ST, Frankel, W

J Biol Chem 2004
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