G-rich VEGF aptamer with locked and unlocked nucleic acid modifications exhibits a unique G-quadruplex fold

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 9524-9536

  Marušič, Maja ^a   Veedu, Rakesh N ^b   Wengel, Jesper ^c   Plavec, Janez ^a,d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d EN FIST Center of Excellence   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE APTAMER; POTASSIUM ION; VASCULOTROPIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMOSTABILITY;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; G-QUADRUPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 84890066853     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt697     Document Type: Article

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