[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress of targeted G-quadruplex-preferred ligands toward cancer therapy

S Asamitsu, S Obata, Z Yu, T Bando, H Sugiyama - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
A G-quadruplex (G4) is a well-known nucleic acid secondary structure comprising guanine-
rich sequences, and has profound implications for various pharmacological and biological …

DNA secondary structures: stability and function of G-quadruplex structures

ML Bochman, K Paeschke, VA Zakian - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
In addition to the canonical double helix, DNA can fold into various other inter-and
intramolecular secondary structures. Although many such structures were long thought to be …

A guide to computational methods for G-quadruplex prediction

E Puig Lombardi, A Londoño-Vallejo - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Guanine-rich nucleic acids can fold into the non-B DNA or RNA structures called G-
quadruplexes (G4). Recent methodological developments have allowed the characterization …

Targeting G-quadruplexes in gene promoters: a novel anticancer strategy?

S Balasubramanian, LH Hurley, S Neidle - Nature reviews Drug …, 2011 - nature.com
G-quadruplexes are four-stranded DNA structures that are over-represented in gene
promoter regions and are viewed as emerging therapeutic targets in oncology, as …

Rational approaches, design strategies, structure activity relationship and mechanistic insights for anticancer hybrids

K Nepali, S Sharma, M Sharma, PMS Bedi… - European journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
A Hybrid drug which comprises the incorporation of two drug pharmacophores in one single
molecule are basically designed to interact with multiple targets or to amplify its effect …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptome-wide identification of transient RNA G-quadruplexes in human cells

SY Yang, P Lejault, S Chevrier, R Boidot… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Guanine-rich RNA sequences can fold into four-stranded structures, termed G-quadruplexes
(G4-RNAs), whose biological roles are poorly understood, and in vivo existence is debated …

Making sense of G‐quadruplex and i‐motif functions in oncogene promoters

TA Brooks, S Kendrick, L Hurley - The FEBS journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The presence and biological importance of DNA secondary structures in eukaryotic
promoters are becoming increasingly recognized among chemists and biologists as …

How long is too long? Effects of loop size on G-quadruplex stability

A Guedin, J Gros, P Alberti, JL Mergny - Nucleic acids research, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We compared here 80 different sequences containing four tracts of three guanines with
loops of variable length (between 1 and 15 bases for unmodified sequences, up to 30 for …