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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 46, Pages 14752-14759Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103295
Keywords
cations; G-quadruplex; NMR spectroscopy; stacking interactions; structure elucidation
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- Singapore Ministry of Education [ARC30/07]
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Guanine-rich sequence motifs, which contain tracts of three consecutive guanines connected by single non-guanine nucleotides, are abundant in the human genome and can form a robust G-quadruplex structure with high stability. Herein, by using NMR spectroscopy, we investigate the equilibrium between monomeric and 5'5' stacked dimeric propeller-type G-quadruplexes that are formed by DNA sequences containing GGGT motifs. We show that the monomerdimer equilibrium depends on a number of parameters, including the DNA concentration, DNA flanking sequences, the concentration and type of cations, and the temperature. We report on the high-definition structure of a simple monomeric G-quadruplex containing three single-residue loops, which could serve as a reference for propeller-type G-quadruplex structures in solution.
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