Structural dynamics of possible late-stage intermediates in folding of quadruplex DNA studied by molecular simulations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7128-7143

  Stadlbauer, Petr ^a   Krepl, Miroslav ^a   Cheatham III, Thomas E ^b   Koča, Jaroslav ^c   Šponer, Jiří ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; GUANOSINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SIMULATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATA BANK; SIMULATION; TELOMERE;

DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; TELOMERE;

EID: 84881521091     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt412     Document Type: Article

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