Mechanical unfolding of human telomere G-quadruplex DNA probed by integrated fluorescence and magnetic tweezers spectroscopy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2746-2755

  Long, Xi ^a   Parks, Joseph W ^a   Bagshaw, Clive R ^a   Stone, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FOLDING; DNA PROBE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA UNFOLDING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC TWEEZER SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MAGNETS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84876397592     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1341     Document Type: Article

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