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Facts about Methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 2.
Recruits histone deacetylases and DNA methyltransferases. Acts as transcriptional repressor and plays a role in gene silencing.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | MBD2 |
Uniprot: | Q9UBB5 |
Entrez: | 8932 |
Belongs to: |
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No superfamily |
demethylase; DKFZp586O0821; DMTase; methyl-CpG binding domain protein 2; methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 2; Methyl-CpG-binding protein MBD2; NY-CO-41
Mass (kDA):
43.255 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 18q21.2 |
Sequence: | 18; NC_000018.10 (54151606..54224669, complement) |
Highly expressed in brain, heart, kidney, stomach, testis and placenta.
Nucleus. Nuclear, in discrete foci. Detected at replication foci in late S phase.
PMID: 9774669 by Hendrich B., et al. Identification and characterization of a family of mammalian methyl- CpG binding proteins.
PMID: 10441743 by Hendrich B., et al. Genomic structure and chromosomal mapping of the murine and human mbd1, mbd2, mbd3, and mbd4 genes.