Unusual characteristics of the DNA binding domain of epigenetic regulatory protein MeCP2 determine its binding specificity.

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Published in Biochemistry on May 23, 2014

Authors

Sergei Khrapunov1, Christopher Warren, Huiyong Cheng, Esther R Berko, John M Greally, Michael Brenowitz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and ‡Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University , 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, United States.

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