The Drosophila methyl-DNA binding protein MBD2/3 interacts with the NuRD complex via p55 and MI-2

Joachim Marhold1, Alexander Brehm, Katja Kramer

  • 1Research Group Epigenetics, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. j.marhold@dkfz.de

BMC Molecular Biology
|November 2, 2004
PubMed
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