G‐quartets 40 years later: from 5′‐GMP to molecular biology and supramolecular chemistry

JT Davis - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular self‐assembly is central to many processes in both biology and supramolecular
chemistry. The G‐quartet, a hydrogen‐bonded macrocycle formed by cation‐templated …

Human telomere, oncogenic promoter and 5′-UTR G-quadruplexes: diverse higher order DNA and RNA targets for cancer therapeutics

DJ Patel, AT Phan, V Kuryavyi - Nucleic acids research, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Guanine-rich DNA sequences can form G-quadruplexes stabilized by stacked G–G–G–G
tetrads in monovalent cation-containing solution. The length and number of individual G …

A hitchhiker's guide to G-quadruplex ligands

D Monchaud, MP Teulade-Fichou - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, nucleic acid chemists have seen the spectacular emergence of
molecules designed to interact efficiently and selectively with a peculiar DNA structure …

G‐quadruplexes: targets in anticancer drug design

T Ou, Y Lu, J Tan, Z Huang… - ChemMedChem …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
G‐quadruplexes are special secondary structures adopted in some guanine‐rich DNA
sequences. As guanine‐rich sequences are present in important regions of the eukaryotic …

Trisubstituted isoalloxazines as a new class of G-quadruplex binding ligands: small molecule regulation of c-kit oncogene expression

M Bejugam, S Sewitz, PS Shirude… - Journal of the …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report the design, synthesis, biophysical evaluation with primary biological data
of 3, 8, 10-trisubstituted isoalloxazines as a new class of G-quadruplex binding ligands. We …

A G-quadruplex ligand with 10000-fold selectivity over duplex DNA

IM Dixon, F Lopez, AM Tejera, JP Estève… - Journal of the …, 2007 - ACS Publications
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Chemistry and biology of DNA-binding small molecules

A Paul, S Bhattacharya - Current science, 2012 - JSTOR
Regulation of the transcription machinery is one of the many ways to achieve control of gene
expression. This has been done either at the transcription initiation stage or at the …

40 Jahre G‐Quartetts: von 5′‐GMP zur Molekularbiologie und Supramolekularen Chemie

JT Davis - Angewandte Chemie, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Die molekulare Selbstorganisation spielt bei vielen Prozessen in der Biologie und der
Supramolekularen Chemie eine zentrale Rolle. Das G‐Quartett, ein durch …

Diarylethynyl amides that recognize the parallel conformation of genomic promoter DNA G-quadruplexes

J Dash, PS Shirude, STD Hsu… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We report bis-phenylethynyl amide derivatives as a potent G-quadruplex binding small
molecule scaffold. The amide derivatives were efficiently prepared in 3 steps by employing …

Symmetrical and asymmetrical cyanine dyes. Synthesis, spectral properties, and BSA association study

DS Pisoni, L Todeschini, ACA Borges… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
New cyanines were prepared by an efficient and practical route with satisfactory overall yield
from low-cost starting materials. The photophysical behavior of the cyanines was …