[HTML][HTML] Non-canonical DNA structures: Diversity and disease association

A Bansal, S Kaushik, S Kukreti - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A complete understanding of DNA double-helical structure discovered by James Watson
and Francis Crick in 1953, unveil the importance and significance of DNA. For the last seven …

DNA: structure and function

RR Sinden, CE Pearson, VN Potaman… - Advances in genome …, 1998 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the structure and function of DNA. DNA occupies
a critical role in cells, because it is the source of all intrinsic genetic information. Chemically …

The ancient Z-DNA and Z-RNA specific Zα fold has evolved modern roles in immunity and transcription through the natural selection of Flipons

A Herbert - Royal Society Open Science, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Zα fold specifically binds to both Z-DNA and Z-RNA, left-handed nucleic acid structures
that form under physiological conditions and are encoded by flipons. I trace the Zα fold back …

Local supercoil-stabilized DNA structure

E Paleček - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
The DNA double helix exhibits local sequence-dependent polymorphism at the level of the
single base pair and dinucleotide step. Curvature of the DNA molecule occurs in DNA …

Antibody against single-stranded DNA useful for detecting apoptotic cells recognizes hexadeoxynucleotides with various base sequences

Y Kawarada, N Miura, T Sugiyama - The journal of biochemistry, 1998 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Our previous study demonstrated that an antibody against single-stranded DNA could detect
apoptotic cells [Naruse et al.(1994) Histochemistry 101, 73-78]. In this paper we describe the …

Lupus‐inducing drugs alter the structure of supercoiled circular dna domains

W Zacharias, WJ Koopman - Arthritis & Rheumatism: Official …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed the effects of procainamide (PROC), hydralazine (HYD), N‐
acetylprocainamide (NAPA), and L‐canavanine (CAN) on circular supercoiled plasmids as …

Reactivity of parallel-stranded DNA to chemical modification reagents

J Klysik, K Rippe, TM Jovin - Biochemistry, 1990 - ACS Publications
Ramsing, NB, & Jovin, TM(1989) Biochemistry 28, 9536-9541]. In the present study, the
0804-pyridine complex (Os, py), diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), KMn04, and the 1, 10 …

An Intramolecular Triplex Structure From Non-mirror Repeated Sequence Containing BothPy: Pu· Py andPu: Pu· Py Triads

J Klysik - Journal of molecular biology, 1995 - Elsevier
A plasmid insert containing the (TA) 7GATC (TA) 7inverted repeat and an adjacent (AG)
7tract adopts a cruciform structure at neutral pH. However, under acidic conditions the …

Parallel-stranded DNA under topological stress: rearrangement of (dA) 15 .(dT 15 to ad(AAT) n triplex

J Klysik, K Rippe, TM Jovin - Nucleic acids research, 1991 - academic.oup.com
DNA oligonucleotides with appropriate sequences can form a stable duplex in which the two
strands are paired in a parallel orientation instead of as the conventional antiparallel double …

Supercoil-stabilized left-handed DNA in the plasmid (dA-dT) 16 insert formed in the presence of Ni2+

K Nejedlý, J Kłysik, E Paleček - FEBS letters, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract The (dA-dT) 16 insert of the plasmid pAT32 was probed with diethyl pyrocarbonate
(DEPC) and nuclease Bal31 in the presence of Ni 2+ known to be able to induce transition …