Strand directionality affects cation binding and movement within tetramolecular G-quadruplexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 11047-11057

  Šket, Primož ^a,b   Virgilio, Antonella ^c   Esposito, Veronica ^c   Galeone, Aldo ^c   Plavec, Janez ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b EN FIST Center of Excellence   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATION EXCHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

BINDING SITES; CATIONS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84870581528     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks851     Document Type: Article

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