G-Quadruplexes: From Guanine Gels to Chemotherapeutics
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G-Quadruplexes: From Guanine Gels to Chemotherapeutics
G-quartets are square planar arrangements of four guanine bases, which can form extraordinarily stable stacks when present in nucleic acid sequences. Such G-quadruplex structures were long regarded as an in vitro phenomenon, but the widespread presence of suitable sequences in genomes and the identification of proteins that stabilize, modify or resolve these nucleic acid structures have provide...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biotechnology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1073-6085,1559-0305
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-011-9395-5