Fluorescence-based duplex-quadruplex competition test to screen for telomerase RNA quadruplex ligands

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lacroix, Laurent ^a,b   Séosse, Aurélie ^a   Mergny, Jean Louis ^a,c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; PROTEIN HTERC; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952346433     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1199     Document Type: Article

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