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Methyl-CpG-binding domain

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DNA methylation at CpG dinucleotides, the most common DNA modification in eukaryotes, has been associated with various phenomena such as alterations in chromatin structure,
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faces tightly packed against each other. The beta sheet is composed of two long inner strands (beta2 and beta3) sandwiched by two shorter outer strands (beta1 and beta4).
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Bhattacharya SK, Ramchandani S, Cervoni N, Szyf M (1999). "A mammalian protein with specific demethylase activity for mCpG DNA".
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Ho, KL; McNae, IW; Schmiedeberg, L; Klose, RJ; Bird, AP; Walkinshaw, MD (29 February 2008).
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showed that the MBD could protect a 12 nucleotide region surrounding a methyl CpG pair.
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comprising a layer of twisted beta sheet, backed by another layer formed by the alpha1
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of ~70 residues, the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD), which is linked to additional
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to DNA, and in cases of MeCP2, MBD1 and MBD2, preferentially to methylated CpG. In
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Ohki I, Shimotake N, Fujita N, Jee J, Ikegami T, Nakao M, Shirakawa M (May 2001).
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remodelling factors, leading to chromatin compaction and, consequently, to
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The structure of the MBD domain bound to methylated DNA has been solved (
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Index


Pfam
PF01429
Pfam
CL0081
InterPro
IPR001739
SCOP2
1qk9
SCOPe
SUPFAM
CDD
cd00122
Pfam
structures
ECOD
PDB
RCSB PDB
PDBe
PDBj
PDBsum
structure summary
molecular biology
DNA
methylated
CpGs
MeCP2
genomic
transposon
chromosome X

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