 Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2
"Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A DNA-binding protein that interacts with methylated CPG ISLANDS. It plays a role in repressing GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION and is frequently mutated in RETT SYNDROME.
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D051783
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D12.776.260.536 D12.776.660.235.550 D12.776.664.235.700
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2" by people in Profiles.
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Joss-Moore LA, Wang Y, Ogata EM, Sainz AJ, Yu X, Callaway CW, McKnight RA, Albertine KH, Lane RH. IUGR differentially alters MeCP2 expression and H3K9Me3 of the PPAR? gene in male and female rat lungs during alveolarization. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011 Aug; 91(8):672-81.
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Ke X, Lei Q, James SJ, Kelleher SL, Melnyk S, Jernigan S, Yu X, Wang L, Callaway CW, Gill G, Chan GM, Albertine KH, McKnight RA, Lane RH. Uteroplacental insufficiency affects epigenetic determinants of chromatin structure in brains of neonatal and juvenile IUGR rats. Physiol Genomics. 2006 Mar 13; 25(1):16-28.
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