Guanine base stacking in G-quadruplex nucleic acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2034-2046

  Lech, Christopher Jacques ^a   Heddi, Brahim ^a   Phan, Anh Tuân ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

G-QUADRUPLEXES; GUANINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POTASSIUM;

EID: 84873654205     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1110     Document Type: Article

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