Quadruplex nucleic acids as targets for anticancer therapeutics

S Neidle - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Quadruplex nucleic acids—helical four-stranded structures known to form from guanine-rich
nucleic acid sequences through Hoogsteen-type hydrogen bonding—were once just …

G-quadruplexes in c-MYC promoter as targets for cancer therapy

B Bahls, IM Aljnadi, R Emídio, E Mendes, A Paulo - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a societal burden demanding innovative approaches. A major problem with the
conventional chemotherapeutic agents is their strong toxicity and other side effects due to …

Design of Modular G‐quadruplex Ligands

AR Duarte, E Cadoni, AS Ressurreição… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Guanine‐rich nucleic acid sequences able to form four‐stranded structures (G‐
quadruplexes, G4) play key cellular regulatory roles and are considered as promising drug …

[HTML][HTML] Major achievements in the design of quadruplex-interactive small molecules

E Mendes, IM Aljnadi, B Bahls, BL Victor, A Paulo - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organic small molecules that can recognize and bind to G-quadruplex and i-Motif nucleic
acids have great potential as selective drugs or as tools in drug target discovery programs …

The remodel of the “central dogma”: a metabolomics interaction perspective

G Costa dos Santos, M Renovato-Martins, NM de Brito - Metabolomics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In 1957, Francis Crick drew a linear diagram on a blackboard. This
diagram is often called the “central dogma.” Subsequently, the relationships between …

Structure of two G-quadruplexes in equilibrium in the KRAS promoter

J Marquevielle, C Robert, O Lagrabette… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
KRAS is one of the most mutated oncogenes and still considered an undruggable target. An
alternative strategy would consist in targeting its gene rather than the protein, specifically the …

Potential roles for G-quadruplexes in mitochondria

M Falabella, RJ Fernandez, FB Johnson… - Current medicinal …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Some DNA or RNA sequences rich in guanine (G) nucleotides can adopt noncanonical
conformations known as G-quadruplexes (G4). In the nuclear genome, G4 motifs have been …

Exploring the Relationship between G-Quadruplex Nucleic Acids and Plants: From Plant G-Quadruplex Function to Phytochemical G4 Ligands with Pharmaceutic …

AP Falanga, M Terracciano, G Oliviero, GN Roviello… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
G-quadruplex (G4) oligonucleotides are higher-order DNA and RNA secondary structures of
enormous relevance due to their implication in several biological processes and …

G-Quadruplex Modulation of SP1 Functional Binding Sites at the KIT Proximal Promoter

S Da Ros, G Nicoletto, R Rigo, S Ceschi… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The regulation of conformational arrangements of gene promoters is a physiological
mechanism that has been associated with the fine control of gene expression. Indeed, it can …

Targeting a noncanonical, hairpin-containing G-quadruplex structure from the MYCN gene

M Yang, S Carter, S Parmar, DD Bume… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The MYCN gene encodes the transcription factor N-Myc, a driver of neuroblastoma (NB).
Targeting G-quadruplexes (G4s) with small molecules is attractive strategy to control the …