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 …

RNA G-quadruplexes in biology: principles and molecular mechanisms

MM Fay, SM Lyons, P Ivanov - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are extremely stable DNA or RNA secondary structures
formed by sequences rich in guanine. These structures are implicated in many essential …

RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s): genomics and biological functions

K Lyu, EYC Chow, X Mou, TF Chan… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-classical DNA or RNA secondary structures that
have been first observed decades ago. Over the years, these four-stranded structural motifs …

rG4-seq reveals widespread formation of G-quadruplex structures in the human transcriptome

CK Kwok, G Marsico, AB Sahakyan, VS Chambers… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We introduce RNA G-quadruplex sequencing (rG4-seq), a transcriptome-wide RNA G-
quadruplex (rG4) profiling method that couples rG4-mediated reverse transcriptase stalling …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of functional tetramolecular RNA G-quadruplexes derived from transfer RNAs

SM Lyons, D Gudanis, SM Coyne, Z Gdaniec… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract RNA G-quadruplex (RG4) structures are involved in multiple biological processes.
Recent genome-wide analyses of human mRNA transcriptome identified thousands of …

RNA G-quadruplex structures exist and function in vivo in plants

X Yang, J Cheema, Y Zhang, H Deng, S Duncan… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Guanine-rich sequences are able to form complex RNA structures termed RNA
G-quadruplexes in vitro. Because of their high stability, RNA G-quadruplexes are proposed …

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 …

G-quadruplex structures trigger RNA phase separation

Y Zhang, M Yang, S Duncan, X Yang… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation plays an important role in a variety of cellular processes,
including the formation of membrane-less organelles, the cytoskeleton, signalling …

Enhancing prime editing efficiency by modified pegRNA with RNA G-quadruplexes

X Li, X Wang, W Sun, S Huang, M Zhong… - Journal of molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent study shows that the prime editing system fusing the Cas9 nickase and reverse
transcriptase could perform all types of gene modifications, including base substitutions …

G-quadruplex forming sequences in the genome of all known human viruses: A comprehensive guide

E Lavezzo, M Berselli, I Frasson… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
G-quadruplexes are non-canonical nucleic-acid structures that control transcription,
replication, and recombination in organisms. G-quadruplexes are present in eukaryotes …