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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6683
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-6-15
pubmed:abstractText
Cytosine residues in the sequence 5'CpG (cytosine-guanine) are often postsynthetically methylated in animal genomes. CpG methylation is involved in long-term silencing of certain genes during mammalian development and in repression of viral genomes. The methyl-CpG-binding proteins MeCP1 and MeCP2 interact specifically with methylated DNA and mediate transcriptional repression. Here we study the mechanism of repression by MeCP2, an abundant nuclear protein that is essential for mouse embryogenesis. MeCP2 binds tightly to chromosomes in a methylation-dependent manner. It contains a transcriptional-repression domain (TRD) that can function at a distance in vitro and in vivo. We show that a region of MeCP2 that localizes with the TRD associates with a corepressor complex containing the transcriptional repressor mSin3A and histone deacetylases. Transcriptional repression in vivo is relieved by the deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A, indicating that deacetylation of histones (and/or of other proteins) is an essential component of this repression mechanism. The data suggest that two global mechanisms of gene regulation, DNA methylation and histone deacetylation, can be linked by MeCP2.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Dinucleoside Phosphates, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Histone Deacetylases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Histones, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hydroxamic Acids, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Mecp2 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Repressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SIN3A transcription factor, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/cytidylyl-3'-5'-guanosine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/trichostatin A
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
393
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
386-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Acetylation, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Dinucleoside Phosphates, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Histone Deacetylases, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Hydroxamic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-L Cells (Cell Line), pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:9620804-Transfection
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't