Identification of RNA structures and their roles in RNA functions

X Cao, Y Zhang, Y Ding, Y Wan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The development of high-throughput RNA structure profiling methods in the past decade has
greatly facilitated our ability to map and characterize different aspects of RNA structures …

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 …

Detection of G-quadruplex DNA in mammalian cells

A Henderson, Y Wu, YC Huang, EA Chavez… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
It has been proposed that guanine-rich DNA forms four-stranded structures in vivo called G-
quadruplexes or G4 DNA. G4 DNA has been implicated in several biological processes, but …

Solution structure of the human telomeric repeat d [AG3 (T2AG3) 3] G-tetraplex

Y Wang, DJ Patel - Structure, 1993 - cell.com
Background: Repeats of O n sequences are detected as single strand overhangs at the ends
of eukaryotic chromosomes together with associated binding proteins. Such telomere …

G‐quartets 40 years later: from 5′‐GMP to molecular biology and supramolecular chemistry

JT Davis - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular self‐assembly is central to many processes in both biology and supramolecular
chemistry. The G‐quartet, a hydrogen‐bonded macrocycle formed by cation‐templated …

5′-UTR RNA G-quadruplexes: translation regulation and targeting

A Bugaut, S Balasubramanian - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
RNA structures in the untranslated regions (UTRs) of mRNAs influence post-transcriptional
regulation of gene expression. Much of the knowledge in this area depends on canonical …

Thrombin-binding DNA aptamer forms a unimolecular quadruplex structure in solution.

RF Macaya, P Schultze, FW Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
We have used two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy to study the conformation of the
thrombin-binding aptamer d (GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG) in solution. This is one of a series of …

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 …

G-quadruplex formation within the promoter of the KRAS proto-oncogene and its effect on transcription

S Cogoi, LE Xodo - Nucleic acids research, 2006 - academic.oup.com
In human and mouse, the promoter of the KRAS gene contains a nuclease hypersensitive
polypurine–polypyrimidine element (NHPPE) that is essential for transcription. An interesting …

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 …