G-quadruplex DNA structures - Variations on a theme

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 382, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 621-628

  Simonsson, Tomas ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C myc; G quartet; G4 DNA; Oncogene; Telomere; Tetraplex

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID;

BASE PAIRING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; TELOMERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CATIONS; DNA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0035018021     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2001.073     Document Type: Review

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