ZFIN

ZFIN ID: ZDB-GENE-030131-7190

ZFIN ID: ZDB-GENE-030131-7190

CITATIONS (59 total)

Gene Name:	methyl CpG binding protein 2
Gene Symbol:	mecp2

Shams, S., Cronell, P., Landin, J., Pietri, T., Gimdal, A.E., Kettunen, P., Westberg, L. (2025) Zebrafish mecp2 null-mutation increases anxiety and cortisol levels but no change in adult social preference and larval chemically-induced hyperlocomotion. BMC Neuroscience. 26:3838

Santistevan, N.J., Ford, C.T., Gilsdorf, C.S., Grinblat, Y. (2024) Behavioral and transcriptomic analyses of mecp2 function in zebrafish. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. 195(7):e32981

Adrião, A., Mariano, S., Mariano, J., Gavaia, P.J., Cancela, M.L., Vitorino, M., Conceição, N. (2023) mef2ca and mef2cb Double Mutant Zebrafish Show Altered Craniofacial Phenotype and Motor Behaviour. Biomolecules. 13(5):

Gabellini, C., Pucci, C., De Cesari, C., Martini, D., Di Lauro, C., Digregorio, M., Norton, W., Zippo, A., Sessa, A., Broccoli, V., Andreazzoli, M. (2022) CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Inactivation of the Autism-Risk Gene setd5 Leads to Social Impairments in Zebrafish. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(1):

Gonçalves, C., Kareklas, K., Teles, M.C., Varela, S.A.M., Costa, J., Leite, R.B., Paixão, T., Oliveira, R.F. (2022) Phenotypic architecture of sociality and its associated genetic polymorphisms in zebrafish. Genes, brain, and behavior. 21(5):e12809

Varela, T., Varela, D., Martins, G., Conceição, N., Cancela, M.L. (2022) Cdkl5 mutant zebrafish shows skeletal and neuronal alterations mimicking human CDKL5 deficiency disorder. Scientific Reports. 12:9325

Baronio, D., Chen, Y.C., Panula, P. (2021) Abnormal brain development of monoamine oxidase mutant zebrafish and impaired social interaction of heterozygous fish. Disease models & mechanisms. 15(3):

Ross, S.E., Hesselson, D., Bogdanovic, O. (2021) Developmental Accumulation of Gene Body and Transposon Non-CpG Methylation in the Zebrafish Brain. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 9:643603

Pisera-Fuster, A., Faillace, M.P., Bernabeu, R. (2019) Pre-Exposure to Nicotine with Nocturnal Abstinence Induces Epigenetic Changes that Potentiate Nicotine Preference. Molecular neurobiology. 57(4):1828-1846

Fellous, A., Labed-Veydert, T., Locrel, M., Voisin, A.S., Earley, R.L., Silvestre, F. (2018) DNA methylation in adults and during development of the self-fertilizing mangrove rivulus, Kryptolebias marmoratus.. Ecology and evolution. 8:6016-6033

Laing, L.V., Viana, J., Dempster, E., Uren Webster, T.M., van Aerle, R., Mill, J., Santos, E.M. (2018) Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation profiles of reproductive and epigenetic associated genes in the gonads and livers of breeding zebrafish. Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology. 222:16-25

Vitorino, M., Conceicao, N., and Cancela, M. L. (2018) Zebrafish (Danio rerio, Hamilton‐Buchanan, 1822) as a model to study bone diseases associated with Rett syndrome. Zeitschrift fur angewandte Ichthyologie = Journal of applied ichthyology.

Bayés, À., Collins, M.O., Reig-Viader, R., Gou, G., Goulding, D., Izquierdo, A., Choudhary, J.S., Emes, R.D., Grant, S.G. (2017) Evolution of complexity in the zebrafish synapse proteome. Nature communications. 8:14613

Cortelazzo, A., Pietri, T., De Felice, C., Leoncini, S., Guerranti, R., Signorini, C., Timperio, A.M., Zolla, L., Ciccoli, L., Hayek, J. (2017) Proteomic analysis of the Rett syndrome experimental model mecp2^Q63X mutant zebrafish.. Journal of proteomics. 154:128-133

Nozawa, K., Lin, Y., Kubodera, R., Shimizu, Y., Tanaka, H., Ohshima, T. (2017) Zebrafish Mecp2 is required for proper axonal elongation of motor neurons and synapse formation. Developmental Neurobiology. 77(9):1101-1113

van der Vaart, M., Svoboda, O., Weijts, B.G., Espín-Palazón, R., Sapp, V., Pietri, T., Bagnat, M., Muotri, A.R., Traver, D. (2017) Mecp2 regulates tnfa during zebrafish embryonic development and acute inflammation.. Disease models & mechanisms. 10(12):1439-1451

Jimenez-Gonzalez, A., García-Concejo, A., López-Benito, S., Gonzalez-Nunez, V., Arévalo, J.C., Rodriguez, R.E. (2016) Role of morphine, miR-212/132 and mu opioid receptor in the regulation of bdnf in zebrafish embryos. Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects. 1860(6):1308-16

Laing, L.V., Viana, J., Dempster, E.L., Trznadel, M., Trunkfield, L.A., Webster, T.M., van Aerle, R., Paull, G.C., Wilson, R.J., Mill, J., Santos, E.M. (2016) Bisphenol A causes reproductive toxicity, decreases dnmt1 transcription, and reduces global DNA methylation in breeding zebrafish (Danio rerio). Epigenetics. 11(7):526-38

Wang, Y., Zhong, H., Wang, C., Gao, D., Zhou, Y., Zuo, Z. (2016) Maternal exposure to the water soluble fraction of crude oil, lead and their mixture induces autism-like behavioral deficits in zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety. 134P1:23-30

Elkon, R., Milon, B., Morrison, L., Shah, M., Vijayakumar, S., Racherla, M., Leitch, C.C., Silipino, L., Hadi, S., Weiss-Gayet, M., Barras, E., Schmid, C.D., Ait-Lounis, A., Barnes, A., Song, Y., Eisenman, D.J., Eliyahu, E., Frolenkov, G.I., Strome, S.E., Durand, B., Zaghloul, N.A., Jones, S.M., Reith, W., Hertzano, R. (2015) RFX transcription factors are essential for hearing in mice. Nature communications. 6:8549

Gao, H., Bu, Y., Wu, Q., Wang, X., Chang, N., Lei, L., Chen, S., Liu, D., Zhu, X., Hu, K., Xiong, J.W. (2015) Mecp2 regulates neural cell differentiation by suppressing the Id1-Her2/Hes5 axis in zebrafish. Journal of Cell Science. 128(12):2340-50

Leong, W.Y., Lim, Z.H., Korzh, V., Pietri, T., Goh, E.L. (2015) Methyl-CpG Binding Protein 2 (Mecp2) Regulates Sensory Function Through Sema5b and Robo2. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 9:481

Huang, H.T., Kathrein, K.L., Barton, A., Gitlin, Z., Huang, Y.H., Ward, T.P., Hofmann, O., Dibiase, A., Song, A., Tyekucheva, S., Hide, W., Zhou, Y., and Zon, L.I. (2013) A network of epigenetic regulators guides developmental haematopoiesis in vivo. Nature cell biology. 15(12):1516-1525

Pappalardo-Carter, D.L., Balaraman, S., Sathyan, P., Carter, E.S., Chen, W.J., and Miranda, R.C. (2013) Suppression and Epigenetic Regulation of MiR-9 Contributes to Ethanol Teratology: Evidence from Zebrafish and Murine Fetal Neural Stem Cell Models. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. 37(10):1657-1667

Pietri, T., Roman, A.C., Guyon, N., Romano, S.A., Washbourne, P., Moens, C.B., de Polavieja, G.G., and Sumbre, G. (2013) The first mecp2-null zebrafish model shows altered motor behaviors. Frontiers in neural circuits. 7:118

Varshney, G.K., Lu, J., Gildea, D., Huang, H., Pei, W., Yang, Z., Huang, S.C., Schoenfeld, D.S., Pho, N., Casero, D., Hirase, T., Mosbrook-Davis, D.M., Zhang, S., Jao, L.E., Zhang, B., Woods, I.G., Zimmerman, S., Schier, A.F., Wolfsberg, T., Pellegrini, M., Burgess, S.M., and Lin, S. (2013) A large-scale zebrafish gene knockout resource for the genome-wide study of gene function. Genome research. 23(4):727-735

Yang, H., Zhou, Y., Gu, J., Xie, S., Xu, Y., Zhu, G., Wang, L., Huang, J., Ma, H., and Yao, J. (2013) Deep mRNA sequencing analysis to capture the transcriptome landscape of zebrafish embryos and larvae. PLoS One. 8(5):e64058

Wang, D., Jao, L.E., Zheng, N., Dolan, K., Ivey, J., Zonies, S., Wu, X., Wu, K., Yang, H., Meng, Q., Zhu, Z., Zhang, B., Lin, S., and Burgess, S.M. (2007) Efficient genome-wide mutagenesis of zebrafish genes by retroviral insertions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104(30):12428-12433

Coverdale, L.E., Martyniuk, C.J., Trudeau, V.L., and Martin, C.C. (2004) Differential expression of the methyl-cytosine binding protein 2 gene in embryonic and adult brain of zebrafish. Brain research. Developmental brain research. 153(2):281-287

Kriaucionis, S., and Bird, A. (2004) The major form of MeCP2 has a novel N-terminus generated by alternative splicing. Nucleic acids research. 32(5):1818-1823

Hendrich, B. and Tweedie, S. (2003) The methyl-CpG binding domain and the evolving role of DNA methylation in animals. Trends in genetics : TIG. 19(5):269-277

Strausberg,R.L., Feingold,E.A., Grouse,L.H., Derge,J.G., Klausner,R.D., Collins,F.S., Wagner,L., Shenmen,C.M., Schuler,G.D., Altschul,S.F., Zeeberg,B., Buetow,K.H., Schaefer,C.F., Bhat,N.K., Hopkins,R.F., Jordan,H., Moore,T., Max,S.I., Wang,J., Hsieh,F., Diatchenko,L., Marusina,K., Farmer,A.A., Rubin,G.M., Hong,L., Stapleton,M., Soares,M.B., Bonaldo,M.F., Casavant,T.L., Scheetz,T.E., Brownstein,M.J., Usdin,T.B., Toshiyuki,S., Carninci,P., Prange,C., Raha,S.S., Loquellano,N.A., Peters,G.J., Abramson,R.D., Mullahy,S.J., Bosak,S.A., McEwan,P.J., McKernan,K.J., Malek,J.A., Gunaratne,P.H., Richards,S., Worley,K.C., Hale,S., Garcia,A.M., Gay,L.J., Hulyk,S.W., Villalon,D.K., Muzny,D.M., Sodergren,E.J., Lu,X., Gibbs,R.A., Fahey,J., Helton,E., Ketteman,M., Madan,A., Rodrigues,S., Sanchez,A., Whiting,M., Madan,A., Young,A.C., Shevchenko,Y., Bouffard,G.G., Blakesley,R.W., Touchman,J.W., Green,E.D., Dickson,M.C., Rodriguez,A.C., Grimwood,J., Schmutz,J., Myers,R.M., Butterfield,Y.S., Krzywinski,M.I., Skalska,U., Smailus,D.E., Schnerch,A., Schein,J.E., Jones,S.J., and Marra,M.A. (2002) Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99(26):16899-903

Additional Citations (27):

ZFIN Staff (2023) Automated Curation of UniProt Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2022) Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by ARBA machine learning models. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2020) Addition of links from ZFIN to Expression Atlas. Semi-automated Curation.

ZFIN Staff (2017) Curation of PANTHER Gene IDs. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2017) Curation of Alliance of Genome Resources Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

UniProt curators (2015) Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by transferring manual GO annotations between related proteins based on shared sequence features.. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2015) Data Model Change: Sequence Targeting Reagents Removed from Environment. ZFIN Historical Data.

Busch-Nentwich, E., Kettleborough, R., Dooley, C. M., Scahill, C., Sealy, I., White, R., Herd, C., Mehroke, S., Wali, N., Carruthers, S., Hall, A., Collins, J., Gibbons, R., Pusztai, Z., Clark, R., and Stemple, D.L. (2013) Sanger Institute Zebrafish Mutation Project mutant data submission. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2013) Semi-automated association of ENSDARG identifiers with ZFIN genes for the ZMP project. Semi-automated Curation.

Burgess, S., and Lin, S. (2012) Viral Insertion Mutants Overwrite Data. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

Burgess, S., and Lin, S. (2011) Viral Insertion Mutants. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

UniProt-GOA (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on the automatic assignment of UniProtKB Subcellular Location terms in UniProtKB/TrEMBL entries. Manually curated data.

Gaudet, P., Livstone, M., Thomas, P., The Reference Genome Project (2010) Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees. Automated Data Submission.

Moens, C.B. and ZFIN Staff (2009) Curation of TILLING Database Links. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZIRC and ZFIN Staff (2008) Mutant and Transgenic Line Submissions 2008. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2007) Microarray Expression to Gene Association in ZFIN. Semi-automated Curation.

ZFIN Staff (2006) Curation of Ensembl Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

Thisse, B., Thisse, C. (2004) Fast Release Clones: A High Throughput Expression Analysis. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2004) ZGC Data Curation and Association in ZFIN by ZFIN Staff. Semi-automated Curation.

Zebrafish Nomenclature Committee (2003) Nomenclature Data Curation (2003-2010). Nomenclature Committee Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2003) Submission and Curation of Mutant and Transgenic Lines. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of VEGA Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of orthology data. Manually curated data.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Gene Ontology Annotation Through Association of UniProt Keywords with GO Terms. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Curation of NCBI Gene Data Via Shared RNA Sequence IDs. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Scientific Curation. Manually curated data.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Gene Ontology Annotation Through Association of InterPro Records with GO Terms. Automated Data Submission.