The parallel G-quadruplex structure of vertebrate telomeric repeat sequences is not the preferred folding topology under physiological conditions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5768-5775

  Hänsel, Robert ^a   Löhr, Frank ^a   Foldynová Trantírková, Silvie ^b   Bamberg, Ernst ^c   Trantírek, Luká ^d   Dötsch, Volker ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Biology Centre   (Czech Republic)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FICOLL; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; MACROGOL 200;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PORPHYRINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 80052222296     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr174     Document Type: Article

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