DNA quadruple helices in nanotechnology

JL Mergny, D Sen - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
DNA has played an early and powerful role in the development of bottom-up
nanotechnologies, not least because of DNA's precise, predictable, and controllable …

Mass spectrometry of nucleic acid noncovalent complexes

E Largy, A Konig, A Ghosh, D Ghosh… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acids have been among the first targets for antitumor drugs and antibiotics. With the
unveiling of new biological roles in regulation of gene expression, specific DNA and RNA …

The application of DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes to therapeutic medicines

GW Collie, GN Parkinson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The intriguing structural diversity in folded topologies available to guanine-rich nucleic acid
repeat sequences have made four-stranded G-quadruplex structures the focus of both basic …

Non-B DNA: a major contributor to small-and large-scale variation in nucleotide substitution frequencies across the genome

WM Guiblet, MA Cremona, RS Harris… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Approximately 13% of the human genome can fold into non-canonical (non-B) DNA
structures (eg G-quadruplexes, Z-DNA, etc.), which have been implicated in vital cellular …

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 …

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 …

Fluorescent probes for G‐quadruplex structures

BR Vummidi, J Alzeer, NW Luedtke - ChemBioChem, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Mounting evidence supports the presence of biologically relevant G‐quadruplexes in single‐
cell organisms, but the existence of endogenous G‐quadruplex structures in mammalian …

Crosstalk between G-quadruplex and ROS

S Wu, L Jiang, L Lei, C Fu, J Huang, Y Hu… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can lead to single nucleic acid
base damage, DNA strand breakage, inter-and intra-strand cross-linking of nucleic acids …

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 …

Structure, location and interactions of G‐quadruplexes

JL Huppert - The FEBS journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Four‐stranded G‐rich DNA structures called G‐quadruplexes have been the subject of
increasing interest recently. Experimental and computational techniques have been used to …