Intramolecularly folded G-quadruplex and i-motif structures in the proximal promoter of the vascular endothelial growth factor gene

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4598-4608

  Guo, Kexiao ^a   Gokhale, Vijay ^a   Hurley, Laurence H ^a,b   Sun, Daekyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DIMETHYL SULFATE; DNA B; GUANINE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA STRAND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 49249090584     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn380     Document Type: Article

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