Genome-wide computational and expression analyses reveal G-quadruplex DNA motifs as conserved cis-regulatory elements in human and related species

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5641-5649

  Verma, Anjali ^a   Halder, Kangkan ^a   Halder, Rashi ^a   Yadav, Vinod Kumar ^a   Rawal, Pooja ^a   Thakur, Ram Krishna ^a   Mohd, Farhan ^a   Sharma, Abhay ^a   Chowdhury, Shantanu ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10,15,20 TETRAKIS(N METHYL 4 PYRIDYL)PORPHINE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENOMIC DNA; PORPHINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA CONFORMATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 52449093394     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm800448a     Document Type: Article

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