Biophysical characterization of an ensemble of intramolecular i-Motifs formed by the human c-MYC NHE III1 P1 promoter mutant sequence

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 561-567

  Dettler, Jamie M ^a   Buscaglia, Robert ^b   Cui, JingJing ^a   Cashman, Derek ^c   Blynn, Meredith ^d   Lewis, Edwin A ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN;

BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA DENATURATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROMOTER REGION; TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955222851     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.042     Document Type: Article

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