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The methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1 interacts with the p150 subunit of chromatin assembly factor 1.


ABSTRACT: DNA promoter hypermethylation has been shown to be a functional mechanism of transcriptional repression. This epigenetic gene silencing is thought to involve the recruitment of chromatin-remodeling factors, such as histone deacetylases, to methylated DNA via a family of proteins called methyl-CpG binding proteins (MBD1 to -4). MBD1, a member of this family, exhibits transcription-repressive activity, but to this point no interacting protein partners have been identified. In this study, we demonstrate that MBD1 partners with the p150 subunit of chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1), forming a multiprotein complex that also contains HP1alpha. The MBD1-CAF-1 p150 interaction requires the methyl-CpG binding domain of MBD1, and the association occurs in the C terminus of CAF-1 p150. The two proteins colocalize to regions of dense heterochromatin in mouse cells, and overexpression of the C terminus of CAF-1 p150 prevents the targeting of MBD1 in these cells without disrupting global heterochromatin structure. This interaction suggests a role for MBD1 and CAF-1 p150 in methylation-mediated transcriptional repression and the inheritance of epigenetically determined chromatin states.

SUBMITTER: Reese BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC153189 | biostudies-other | 2003 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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The methyl-CpG binding protein MBD1 interacts with the p150 subunit of chromatin assembly factor 1.

Reese Brian E BE   Bachman Kurtis E KE   Baylin Stephen B SB   Rountree Michael R MR  

Molecular and cellular biology 20030501 9


DNA promoter hypermethylation has been shown to be a functional mechanism of transcriptional repression. This epigenetic gene silencing is thought to involve the recruitment of chromatin-remodeling factors, such as histone deacetylases, to methylated DNA via a family of proteins called methyl-CpG binding proteins (MBD1 to -4). MBD1, a member of this family, exhibits transcription-repressive activity, but to this point no interacting protein partners have been identified. In this study, we demons  ...[more]

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