Quadruplex nucleic acids as novel therapeutic targets

S Neidle - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Quadruplex-forming sequences are widely prevalent in human and other genomes,
including bacterial ones. These sequences are over-represented in eukaryotic telomeres …

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 …

A transforming KIF5B and RET gene fusion in lung adenocarcinoma revealed from whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing

YS Ju, WC Lee, JY Shin, S Lee, T Bleazard… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
The identification of the molecular events that drive cancer transformation is essential to the
development of targeted agents that improve the clinical outcome of lung cancer. Many …

TET deficiency perturbs mature B cell homeostasis and promotes oncogenesis associated with accumulation of G-quadruplex and R-loop structures

V Shukla, D Samaniego-Castruita, Z Dong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enzymes of the TET family are methylcytosine dioxygenases that undergo frequent
mutational or functional inactivation in human cancers. Recurrent loss-of-function mutations …

G‐quadruplex‐induced instability during leading‐strand replication

J Lopes, A Piazza, R Bermejo, B Kriegsman… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
G‐quadruplexes are four‐stranded nucleic acid structures whose biological functions
remain poorly understood. In the yeast S. cerevisia e, we report that G‐quadruplexes form …

Elevated levels of G-quadruplex formation in human stomach and liver cancer tissues

G Biffi, D Tannahill, J Miller, WJ Howat… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Four-stranded G-quadruplex DNA secondary structures have recently been visualized in the
nuclei of human cultured cells. Here, we show that BG4, a G-quadruplex-specific antibody …

Homology and enzymatic requirements of microhomology-dependent alternative end joining

S Sharma, SM Javadekar, M Pandey… - Cell death & …, 2015 - nature.com
Nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) is one of the major double-strand break (DSB)
repair pathways in higher eukaryotes. Recently, it has been shown that alternative NHEJ (A …

The interplay between G-quadruplex and transcription

N Kim - Current medicinal chemistry, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
G4 DNA is a non-canonical DNA structure consisting of a stacked array of Gquartets held
together by base pairing between guanine bases. The formation of G4 DNA requires a …

Translocation and deletion breakpoints in cancer genomes are associated with potential non-B DNA-forming sequences

A Bacolla, JA Tainer, KM Vasquez… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Gross chromosomal rearrangements (including translocations, deletions, insertions and
duplications) are a hallmark of cancer genomes and often create oncogenic fusion genes …

FANCJ promotes DNA synthesis through G‐quadruplex structures

P Castillo Bosch, S Segura‐Bayona, W Koole… - The EMBO …, 2014 - embopress.org
Our genome contains many G‐rich sequences, which have the propensity to fold into stable
secondary DNA structures called G4 or G‐quadruplex structures. These structures have …