Nascent RNA transcripts facilitate the formation of G-quadruplexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7236-7246

  Shrestha, Prakash ^a   Xiao, Shan ^b   Dhakal, Soma ^a   Tan, Zheng ^b   Mao, Hanbin ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA HYBRID; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA FOLDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGLE MOLECULE STALLED TRANSCRIPTION ASSAY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; KINETICS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903135003     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku416     Document Type: Article

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