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Closely related proteins MBD2 and MBD3 play distinctive but interacting roles in mouse development.
Genes & development - 15 Mar 2001
Hendrich B, Guy J, Ramsahoye B, Wilson V A, Bird A
Abstract excerpt
MBD2 and MBD3 are closely related proteins with consensus methyl-CpG binding domains. MBD2 is a transcriptional repressor that specifically binds to methylated DNA and is a component of the MeCP1 protein complex. In contrast, MBD3 fails to bind methylated DNA in murine cells, and is a component of the Mi-2/NuRD corepressor complex. We show by gene targeting that the two proteins are not functionally redundant in...
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