Structure of the hybrid-2 type intramolecular human telomeric G-quadruplex in K+ solution: Insights into structure polymorphism of the human telomeric sequence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4927-4940

  Dai, Jixun ^a   Carver, Megan ^a   Punchihewa, Chandanamali ^a   Jones, Roger A ^b   Yang, Danzhou ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA HYBRID; GUANINE; POTASSIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GUANINE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POTASSIUM; PROTONS; SOLUTIONS; TELOMERE;

EID: 34548550548     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm522     Document Type: Article

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