Guanine tetraplex topology of human telomere DNA is governed by the number of (TTAGGG) repeats

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 5851-5860

  Vorlíčková, Michaela ^a   Chládková, Jana ^a   Kejnovská, Iva ^a   Fialová, Markéta ^a   Kypr, Jaroslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; GUANINE; POTASSIUM ION; QUADRUPLEX DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PARALLEL DESIGN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; THERMOSTABILITY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; THERMODYNAMICS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GUANINE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 26944463127     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki898     Document Type: Article

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