Survey and summary G-quadruplexes and their regulatory roles in biology

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 8627-8637

  Rhodes, Daniela ^a,b,c   Lipps, Hans J ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; HISTONE H2AX; PROTEIN MUTS; DNA; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TELOMERE;

DNA; DNA REPLICATION; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84948677788     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv862     Document Type: Review

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