Biophysical and biological properties of quadruplex oligodeoxyribonucleotides

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2097-2107

  Dapić, Virna ^b   Abdomerović, Vedra ^b   Marrington, Rachel ^a   Peberdy, Jemma ^a   Rodger, Alison ^a   Trent, John O ^b   Bates, Paula J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; APTAMER; BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; GUANISINE RICH OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; GUANOSINE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POTASSIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; FEMALE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID RENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TELOMERE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; BIOPHYSICS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; METABOLISM;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID RENATURATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN BINDING; SODIUM;

EID: 0038476179     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg316     Document Type: Article

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