G-quadruplex structures are stable and detectable in human genomic DNA

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lam, Enid Yi Ni ^a   Beraldi, Dario ^a   Tannahill, David ^a   Balasubramanian, Shankar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; DNA; LIGAND; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; BIOENGINEERING; DNA; GENOMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIGAND; MAMMAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MCF 7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MCF-7 CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODIES;

EID: 84877768759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2792     Document Type: Article

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