RNA G-quadruplexes: G-quadruplexes with "u" turns

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2102-2111

  Agarwal, Tani ^a   Jayaraj, Gopal ^a   Pandey, Satya Prakash ^a   Agarwala, Prachi ^a   Maiti, Souvik ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Ligand; Loop; Quadruplex; Rna; Splicing; Translation; UTR

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN P53; RNA; SODIUM ION; SOMATOMEDIN B; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONCOGENE; OXYTRICHA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANK SUM TEST; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; TANDEM REPEAT; TETRAHYMENA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; RNA;

EID: 84860188058     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161212799958468     Document Type: Review

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