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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 39, Issue 21, Pages 9448-9457Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr539
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- Singapore Ministry of Education [ARC30/07, RG62/07]
- Singapore Biomedical Research Council [07/1/22/19/542]
- Waived by Oxford University Press
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G-rich oligonucleotides T30695 (or T30923), with the sequence of (GGGT) 4, and T40214, with the sequence of (GGGC) 4, have been reported to exhibit anti-HIV and anticancer activity. Here we report on the structure of a dimeric G-quadruplex adopted by a derivative of these sequences in K(+) solution. It comprises two identical propeller-type parallel-stranded G-quadruplex subunits each containing three G-tetrad layers that are stacked via the 5'-5' interface. We demonstrated control over the stacking of the two monomeric subunits by sequence modifications. Our analysis of possible structures at the stacking interface provides a general principle for stacking of G-quadruplexes, which could have implications for the assembly and recognition of higher-order G-quadruplex structures.
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