Methyl Binding Domain protein 2 (MBD2) binds 5-methylcytosin...

created [InstanceEdit:427372] May, B, 2009-06-19
dbId 427365
displayName Methyl Binding Domain protein 2 (MBD2) binds 5-methylcytosin...
modified [InstanceEdit:5332992] May, B, 2014-02-18
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text 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).
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