Adrian Bird - Selected publications#

• Boyes, J., and Bird, A. (1991). DNA methylation inhibits transcription indirectly via a methyl-CpG binding protein. Cell 64, 1123-1134.

• Lewis, J.D., Meehan, R.R., Henzel, W.J., Maurer-Fogy, I., Jeppesen, P., Klein, F., and Bird, A. (1992). Purification, sequence, and cellular localization of a novel chromosomal protein that binds to methylated DNA. Cell 69, 905-914.

• Guy, J., Gan, J., Selfridge, J., Cobb, S., and Bird, A. (2007). Reversal of neurological defects in a mouse model of Rett syndrome. Science 315, 1143-1147.

• 1980 Pollack, Y., Stein, R., Razin, A. and Cedar, H. Methylation of foreign sequences in eukaryotic cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 6463-6467.

• 1982 Stein, R., Gruenbaum, Y., Pollack, Y., Razin, A. and Cedar, H. Clonal inheritance of the pattern of DNA methylation in mouse cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79, 61-65.

• 2007 Schlesinger, Y., Straussman, R., Keshet, I., Farkash, S., Hecht, M., Zimmerman, J., Eden, E., Yakhini, Z., Ben-Shushan, E., Reubinoff, B.E., Bergman, Y., Simon, I. and Cedar, H. Polycomb mediated histone H3(K27) methylation pre-marks genes for de novo methylation in cancer. Nature Genet. 39, 232-239.