lad (lac repressor) which contains its own promoter and terminator sequences; lacP (promoter) which can simply be described as the RNA polymerase-binding site; and lacO (operator) which is the ...

The Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) has long been considered a transcriptional repressor, given its penchant for binding histone deacetylases ... To test this, the researchers used chromatin ...