Metal cations in G-quadruplex folding and stability

D Bhattacharyya, G Mirihana Arachchilage… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
This review is focused on the structural and physicochemical aspects of metal cation
coordination to G-Quadruplexes (GQ) and their effects on GQ stability and conformation. G …

Role of alkali metal ions in G-quadruplex nucleic acid structure and stability

E Largy, JL Mergny, V Gabelica - The alkali metal ions: Their role for life, 2016 - Springer
G-quadruplexes are guanine-rich nucleic acids that fold by forming successive quartets of
guanines (the G-tetrads), stabilized by intra-quartet hydrogen bonds, inter-quartet stacking …

Effects of metal ions and cosolutes on G-quadruplex topology

T Fujii, P Podbevšek, J Plavec, N Sugimoto - Journal of Inorganic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Topologies of G-quadruplexes depend on oligonucleotide sequences and on environmental
factors, and the diversity of G-quadruplex topologies complicates investigation of functions of …

Folding and misfolding pathways of G-quadruplex DNA

A Marchand, V Gabelica - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
G-quadruplexes adopt various folding topologies, but information on their folding pathways
remains scarce. Here, we used electrospray mass spectrometry to detect and quantify the …

G-quadruplex conformation and dynamics are determined by loop length and sequence

R Tippana, W Xiao, S Myong - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The quadruplex forming G-rich sequences are unevenly distributed throughout the human
genome. Their enrichment in oncogenic promoters and telomeres has generated interest in …

G-quadruplexes: prediction, characterization, and biological application

CK Kwok, CJ Merrick - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Guanine (G)-rich sequences in nucleic acids can assemble into G-quadruplex structures that
involve G-quartets linked by loop nucleotides. The structural and topological diversity of G …

Four-stranded nucleic acids: structure, function and targeting of G-quadruplexes

JL Huppert - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
There are many structures that can be adopted by nucleic acids other than the famous
Watson–Crick duplex form. This tutorial review describes the guanine rich G-quadruplex …

Structural transition from antiparallel to parallel G‐quadruplex of d(G 4 T 4 G 4 ) induced by Ca 2+

D Miyoshi, A Nakao, N Sugimoto - Nucleic acids research, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Guanine quadruplex (G‐quadruplex) structures are formed by guanine‐rich
oligonucleotides. Because of their in vivo and in vitro importance, numerous studies have …

Thermodynamic stability of G‐quadruplexes: impact of sequence and environment

J Jana, K Weisz - ChemBioChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
G‐quadruplexes have attracted growing interest in recent years due to their occurrence in
vivo and their possible biological functions. In addition to being promising targets for drug …

The tale of RNA G-quadruplex

P Agarwala, S Pandey, S Maiti - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
G-quadruplexes are non-canonical secondary structures found in guanine rich regions of
DNA and RNA. Reports have indicated the wide occurrence of RNA G-quadruplexes across …