Isolation and comparative expression analysis of six MBD genes in wheat.

The 5-methylcytosines (m5C) play critical roles in epigenetic control, often being recognized by proteins containing an MBD. In this study, we isolated six wheat cDNAs with open reading frame encoding putative methyl-binding domain proteins, which were designated as TaMBD1-TaMBD6, respectively. BLASTX searches and phylogenetic analysis suggested that the six TaMBD genes belonged to four (I, II, III and VIII) of the eight subclasses of MBD family.

WITHDRAWN: Isolation and comparative expression analysis of six MBD genes in wheat.

The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Biochem. Biophys. Acta, doi:10.