Abstract:
:MeCP2 is an essential transcriptional repressor that mediates gene silencing through binding to methylated DNA. Binding specificity has been thought to depend on hydrophobic interactions between cytosine methyl groups and a hydrophobic patch within the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD). X-ray analysis of a methylated DNA-MBD cocrystal reveals, however, that the methyl groups make contact with a predominantly hydrophilic surface that includes tightly bound water molecules. This suggests that MeCP2 recognizes hydration of the major groove of methylated DNA rather than cytosine methylation per se. The MeCP2-DNA complex also identifies a unique structural role for T158, the residue most commonly mutated in Rett syndrome.
journal_name
Mol Celljournal_title
Molecular cellauthors
Ho KL,McNae IW,Schmiedeberg L,Klose RJ,Bird AP,Walkinshaw MDdoi
10.1016/j.molcel.2007.12.028subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-02-29 00:00:00pages
525-31issue
4eissn
1097-2765issn
1097-4164pii
S1097-2765(08)00096-8journal_volume
29pub_type
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