4d4w

Structural highlights

Function

[MBD1_HUMAN] Transcriptional repressor that binds CpG islands in promoters where the DNA is methylated at position 5 of cytosine within CpG dinucleotides. Binding is abolished by the presence of 7-mG that is produced by DNA damage by methylmethanesulfonate (MMS). Acts as transcriptional repressor and plays a role in gene silencing by recruiting AFT7IP, which in turn recruits factors such as the histone methyltransferase SETDB1. Probably forms a complex with SETDB1 and ATF7IP that represses transcription and couples DNA methylation and histone 'Lys-9' trimethylation. Isoform 1 and isoform 2 can also repress transcription from unmethylated promoters.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

See Also

• Methyl CpG binding protein 3D structures

References

1. ↑ Cross SH, Meehan RR, Nan X, Bird A. A component of the transcriptional repressor MeCP1 shares a motif with DNA methyltransferase and HRX proteins. Nat Genet. 1997 Jul;16(3):256-9. PMID:9207790 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng0797-256
2. ↑ Fujita N, Takebayashi S, Okumura K, Kudo S, Chiba T, Saya H, Nakao M. Methylation-mediated transcriptional silencing in euchromatin by methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1 isoforms. Mol Cell Biol. 1999 Sep;19(9):6415-26. PMID:10454587
3. ↑ Hendrich B, Bird A. Identification and characterization of a family of mammalian methyl-CpG binding proteins. Mol Cell Biol. 1998 Nov;18(11):6538-47. PMID:9774669
4. ↑ Ng HH, Jeppesen P, Bird A. Active repression of methylated genes by the chromosomal protein MBD1. Mol Cell Biol. 2000 Feb;20(4):1394-406. PMID:10648624
5. ↑ Fujita N, Watanabe S, Ichimura T, Tsuruzoe S, Shinkai Y, Tachibana M, Chiba T, Nakao M. Methyl-CpG binding domain 1 (MBD1) interacts with the Suv39h1-HP1 heterochromatic complex for DNA methylation-based transcriptional repression. J Biol Chem. 2003 Jun 27;278(26):24132-8. Epub 2003 Apr 23. PMID:12711603 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M302283200
6. ↑ Fujita N, Watanabe S, Ichimura T, Ohkuma Y, Chiba T, Saya H, Nakao M. MCAF mediates MBD1-dependent transcriptional repression. Mol Cell Biol. 2003 Apr;23(8):2834-43. PMID:12665582
7. ↑ Reese BE, Bachman KE, Baylin SB, Rountree MR. The methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1 interacts with the p150 subunit of chromatin assembly factor 1. Mol Cell Biol. 2003 May;23(9):3226-36. PMID:12697822
8. ↑ Ghoshal K, Majumder S, Datta J, Motiwala T, Bai S, Sharma SM, Frankel W, Jacob ST. Role of human ribosomal RNA (rRNA) promoter methylation and of methyl-CpG-binding protein MBD2 in the suppression of rRNA gene expression. J Biol Chem. 2004 Feb 20;279(8):6783-93. Epub 2003 Nov 10. PMID:14610093 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M309393200
9. ↑ Sarraf SA, Stancheva I. Methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1 couples histone H3 methylation at lysine 9 by SETDB1 to DNA replication and chromatin assembly. Mol Cell. 2004 Aug 27;15(4):595-605. PMID:15327775 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2004.06.043
10. ↑ Watanabe S, Ichimura T, Fujita N, Tsuruzoe S, Ohki I, Shirakawa M, Kawasuji M, Nakao M. Methylated DNA-binding domain 1 and methylpurine-DNA glycosylase link transcriptional repression and DNA repair in chromatin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Oct 28;100(22):12859-64. Epub 2003 Oct 10. PMID:14555760 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2131819100