The structural transition and compaction of human telomeric G-quadruplex induced by excluded volume effect under cation-deficient conditions

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 136, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 124-127

  Zhou, Jun ^a,b   Wei, Chunying ^a   Jia, Guoqing ^a,b   Wang, Xiuli ^a,b   Tang, Qian ^c   Feng, Zhaochi ^a   Li, Can ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compaction; Excluded volume effect; Human telomeric G quadruplex; Molecular crowding; Structural transition

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TELOMERIC G QUADRUPLEX;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMAN; MICROCHIP ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CATIONS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TELOMERE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 46049096922     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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