Metal Ion Coordination in G-Quadruplexes

Metal Complex-DNA Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-93

  Plavec, Janez ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cation coordination and stability; Cation coordination and stability of G quadruplexes; Cation movement within G Quadruplexes; G quadruplexes adopted by promoter regions; Metal ion coordination in G quadruplexes; Oxytricha nova telomere end binding protein (OnTEBP); Role in determining G quadruplex structure; Structure of sequences of human telomere repeats

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956447364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312089.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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