In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

The diverse structural landscape of quadruplexes

HL Lightfoot, T Hagen, NJ Tatum, J Hall - FEBS letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
G‐quadruplexes are secondary structures formed in G‐rich sequences in DNA and RNA.
Considerable research over the past three decades has led to in‐depth insight into these …

In-cell NMR: Why and how?

FX Theillet, E Luchinat - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2022 - Elsevier
NMR spectroscopy has been applied to cells and tissues analysis since its beginnings, as
early as 1950. We have attempted to gather here in a didactic fashion the broad diversity of …

Exposing the origins of irreproducibility in fluorine NMR spectroscopy

CP Rosenau, BJ Jelier, AD Gossert… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine chemistry has taken a pivotal role in chemical reaction discovery, drug
development, and chemical biology. NMR spectroscopy, arguably the most important …

Hybrid-type and two-tetrad antiparallel telomere DNA G-quadruplex structures in living human cells

HL Bao, H Liu, Y Xu - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Although the telomeric sequence has been reported to form various G-quadruplex
topologies in vitro and in Xenopus laevis oocytes, in living human cells, the topology of …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecule targeting of biologically relevant RNA tertiary and quaternary structures

M Zafferani, AE Hargrove - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Initial successes in developing small molecule ligands for non-coding RNAs have
underscored their potential as therapeutic targets. More recently, these successes have …

19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Technique for Identifying and Quantifying G-Quadruplex Topology in Human Telomeric Overhangs

C Wang, G Xu, X Liu, L Jiang, X Zhou… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are noncanonical nucleic acid secondary structures with diverse
topological features and biological roles. Human telomeric (Htelo) overhangs consisting of …

RNA structure promotes liquid-to-solid phase transition of short RNAs in neuronal dysfunction

S Wang, Y Xu - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
In nucleotide expansion disorders, RNA foci are reportedly associated with
neurodegenerative disease pathogeneses. Characteristically, these RNAs exhibit long poly …

Telomeric DNA–RNA-hybrid G-quadruplex exists in environmental conditions of HeLa cells

HL Bao, Y Xu - Chemical Communications, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present study, we employed a 19F NMR approach to study the association of telomere
RNA and DNA in vitro and in living human cells. We successfully characterized the DNA …

Oligonucleotides DNA containing 8-trifluoromethyl-2′-deoxyguanosine for observing Z-DNA structure

HL Bao, T Masuzawa, T Oyoshi, Y Xu - Nucleic Acids Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Z-DNA is known to be a left-handed alternative form of DNA and has important biological
roles as well as being related to cancer and other genetic diseases. It is therefore important …