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  2. DNMT1 binds HDAC2 and a new co-repressor, DMAP1, to form a complex at replication foci

DNMT1 binds HDAC2 and a new co-repressor, DMAP1, to form a complex at replication foci

  • Nat Genet. 2000 Jul;25(3):269-77. doi: 10.1038/77023.
M R Rountree 1 K E Bachman S B Baylin
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Affiliation

  • 1 The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Tumor Biology Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. rountree@jhmi.edu
PMID: 10888872 DOI: 10.1038/77023
Abstract

DNA methylation can contribute to transcriptional silencing through several transcriptionally repressive complexes, which include methyl-CpG binding domain proteins (MBDs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). We show here that the chief Enzyme that maintains mammalian DNA methylation, DNMT1, can also establish a repressive transcription complex. The non-catalytic amino terminus of DNMT1 binds to HDAC2 and a new protein, DMAP1 (for DNMT1 associated protein), and can mediate transcriptional repression. DMAP1 has intrinsic transcription repressive activity, and binds to the transcriptional co-repressor TSG101. DMAP1 is targeted to replication foci through interaction with the far N terminus of DNMT1 throughout S phase, whereas HDAC2 joins DNMT1 and DMAP1 only during late S phase, providing a platform for how histones may become deacetylated in heterochromatin following replication. Thus, DNMT1 not only maintains DNA methylation, but also may directly target, in a heritable manner, transcriptionally repressive chromatin to the genome during DNA replication.

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