MeCP2 Antibody

DNA methylation, or the addition of methyl groups to cytosine bases in the dinucleotide CpG, is imperative to proper development and regulates gene expression. The methylation pattern involves the enzymatic processes of methylation and demethylation. The demethylation enzyme was recently found to be a mammalian protein, which exhibits demethylase activity associated to a methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD). The enzyme is able to revert methylated cytosine bases to cytosines within the particular dinucleotide sequence mdCpdG by catalyzing the cleaving of the methyl group as methanol. MeCP2 and MBD1 (PCM1) are first found to repress transcription by binding specifically to methylated DNA. MBD2 and MBD4 (also known as MED1) were later found to colocalize with foci of heavily methylated satellite DNA and believed to mediate the biological functions of the methylation signal. Surprisingly, MBD3 does not bind methylated DNA both in vivo and in vitro. MBD1, MBD2, MBD3, and MBD4 are found to be expressed in somatic tissues, but the expression of MBD1 and MBD2 is reduced or absent in embryonic stem cells, which are known to be deficient in MeCP1 activity. MBD4 have homology to bacterial base excision repair DNA N-glycosylases/lyases. In some microsatellite unstable tumors MBD4 is mutated at an exonic polynucleotide tract.

This product is for research use only and is not approved for use in humans or in clinical diagnosis. Primary Antibodies are guaranteed for 1 year from date of receipt.

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Publication using NB100-56326	Applications	Species
Ruddock-D'Cruz NT, Xue J, Wilson KJ et al. Dynamic changes in the localization of five members of the methyl binding domain (MBD) gene family during murine and bovine preimplantation embryo development. Mol Reprod Dev. 2008-01-01 [PMID: 17546630] (WB) Details: IF [bovine embryos (Fig 3) and mouse embryos (Fig 4)] and for WB [bovine heart, (supplementary data)] 1. MBD1 mAb (IMG-306) 2. MBD3/MBD2 mAb (IMG-296A) 3. MBD4 pAb (IMG-285).	WB

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• MeCP2 Antibodies
• MeCP2 ELISA Kits
• MeCP2 Lysate
• MeCP2 Proteins