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...therapies to clinical trials in 2021. Figure 1: Schematic of the human MECP2 locus and MECP2 protein...References: Amir RE, Van den Veyver IB, Wan M, Tran CQ, Francke U, Zoghbi HY (1999) Rett syndrome is caused...collection of molecular biology tools so that both veteran and new Rett researchers can find the reagents ...maturation (Tillotson & Bird, 2019) and is a global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes. Studies have...have suggested roles in transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling...groove of AT-rich DNA sequences to regulate transcription (Baker et al., 2013). Mutations that affect ...gene editing, MECP2 reactivation, RNA editing, RNA trans-splicing, and protein replacement to reverse the...

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