DNA acting like RNA

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 635-640

  Brown, Robert V ^a   Hurley, Laurence H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

G quadruplex; i motif; RNA; Secondary DNA structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; ION; RNA;

DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 79953214116     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0390635     Document Type: Review

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