I-motif structures formed in the human c-MYC promoter are highly dynamic-insights into sequence redundancy and I-motif stability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Dai, Jixun ^a   Hatzakis, Emmanuel ^a   Hurley, Laurence H ^a,b,c   Yang, Danzhou ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; MYC PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN 3; MYC PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA STRAND; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; PH; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC;

EID: 77955381015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011647     Document Type: Article

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