Emerging Molecular and Biological Functions of MBD2, a Reader of DNA Methylation

DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that is essential for many biological processes and is linked to diseases such as cancer. Methylation is usually associated with transcriptional silencing, but new research has challenged this model. Both transcriptional activation and repression have recently b...

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Main Authors: Kathleen H Wood, Zhaolan eZhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2016.00093/full