Stability of intramolecular quadruplexes: Sequence effects in the central loop

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5559-5567

  Guédin, Aurore ^a,b   Alberti, Patrizia ^a,b   Mergny, Jean Louis ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROCALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA DENATURATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; G-QUADRUPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70449729915     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp563     Document Type: Article

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