Experimental demonstration of T:(G:G:G:G):T hexad and T:A:A:T tetrad alignments within a DNA quadruplex stem

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3754-3764

  Da Silva, Mateus Webba ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TOPOLOGY;

AMINO PROTON; BASE-STACKING; GUANINE; MOLECULAR TOPOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC APPROACH ANALYSIS;

DNA;

GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; PROTON; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; DNA; GUANINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PROTONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THIONUCLEOTIDES; THYMINE;

EID: 14844365381     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0478190     Document Type: Article

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