Kiermaier A, Eilers M
Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Heidelberg, Germany.
Curr Biol. 1997 Aug 1;7(8):R505-7. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00249-1.
Mad proteins are transcriptional repressors that antagonize transcriptional activation and transformation by Myc oncoprotein; recent findings suggest that they repress transcription by recruiting histone deacetylases to target sites on DNA.