Measured and calculated CD spectra of G-quartets stacked with the same or opposite polarities

Chirality

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 431-440

  Gray, Donald M ^a   Wen, Jin Der ^a,c   Gray, Carla W ^a   Repges, Rudolf ^b   Repges, Charlotte ^b   Raabe, Gerhard ^b   Fleischhauer, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; DNA aptamers; Ff gene 5 protein; G quadruplexes; Matrix method calculations

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BINDING PROTEIN; BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; CHAPERONE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; FF GENE 5 PROTEIN; HELICASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NUCLEASE; RESOLVASE; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN; THROMBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WERNER SYNDROME HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATA BANK; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 39749116244     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20455     Document Type: Article

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