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 …

RNA G-quadruplexes in biology: principles and molecular mechanisms

MM Fay, SM Lyons, P Ivanov - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are extremely stable DNA or RNA secondary structures
formed by sequences rich in guanine. These structures are implicated in many essential …

G-quadruplexes: prediction, characterization, and biological application

CK Kwok, CJ Merrick - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Guanine (G)-rich sequences in nucleic acids can assemble into G-quadruplex structures that
involve G-quartets linked by loop nucleotides. The structural and topological diversity of G …

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 …

RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s): genomics and biological functions

K Lyu, EYC Chow, X Mou, TF Chan… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-classical DNA or RNA secondary structures that
have been first observed decades ago. Over the years, these four-stranded structural motifs …

G-Quadruplexes as pathogenic drivers in neurodegenerative disorders

E Wang, R Thombre, Y Shah, R Latanich… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s), higher-order DNA and RNA secondary structures featuring
guanine-rich nucleic acid sequences with various conformations, are widely distributed in …

The C9ORF72 GGGGCC expansion forms RNA G-quadruplex inclusions and sequesters hnRNP H to disrupt splicing in ALS brains

EG Conlon, L Lu, A Sharma, T Yamazaki, T Tang… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
An expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide in C9ORF72 (C9) is the most frequent known cause
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). It has been …

[HTML][HTML] RNA dysregulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Z Butti, SA Patten - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease
and is characterized by the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. It has become …

G‐quadruplex‐binding small molecules ameliorate C9orf72 FTD/ALS pathology in vitro and in vivo

R Simone, R Balendra, TG Moens, E Preza… - EMBO molecular …, 2018 - embopress.org
Intronic GGGGCC repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common known cause of
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which are …

RNA G-quadruplexes: emerging mechanisms in disease

A Cammas, S Millevoi - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract RNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) are formed by G-rich RNA sequences in protein-coding
(mRNA) and non-coding (ncRNA) transcripts that fold into a four-stranded conformation …