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Transcription profiling of human fibroblast cells transfected with a MDB-VP16 fusion to identify possible target genes for MBD1

ABSTRACT: We compared cells transfected with a MBD-VP16 fusion, with cells transfected with a control construct.
The purpose was to turn a repressor protein (MBD1) into an activator, and use differences in transcription to identify possible gene promoter targets.
A common reference was employed for all comparisons within each cell line: cDNA from the untransfected cell line.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Jose de las Heras

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-103 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Recruitment of MBD1 to target genes requires sequence-specific interaction of the MBD domain with methylated DNA.

Clouaire Thomas T de Las Heras Jose Ignacio JI Merusi Cara C Stancheva Irina I

Nucleic acids research 20100408 14

MBD1, a member of the methyl-CpG-binding domain family of proteins, has been reported to repress transcription of methylated and unmethylated promoters. As some MBD1 isoforms contain two DNA-binding domains-an MBD, which recognizes methylated DNA; and a CXXC3 zinc finger, which binds unmethylated CpG-it is unclear whether these two domains function independently of each other or if they cooperate in facilitating recruitment of MBD1 to particular genomic loci. In this report we investigate DNA-bi ...[more]

PMID: 20378711

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Transcription profiling of human fibroblast cells transfected with a MDB-VP16 fusion to identify possible target genes for MBD1

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Recruitment of MBD1 to target genes requires sequence-specific interaction of the MBD domain with methylated DNA.

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