Sites of instability in the human TCF3 (E2A) gene adopt G-quadruplex DNA structures in vitro

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Williams, Jonathan D ^a   Fleetwood, Sara ^a   Berroyer, Alexandra ^a   Kim, Nayun ^b   Larson, Erik D ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

G quadruplex; G4; PBX1; T(1; 19); TCF3

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC INSTABILITY; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIMER EXTENSION ASSAY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TCF3 GENE; YEAST;

EID: 84940105471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00177     Document Type: Article

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