Circular dichroism and conformational polymorphism of DNA

J Kypr, I Kejnovská, D Renčiuk… - Nucleic acids …, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Here we review studies that provided important information about conformational properties
of DNA using circular dichroic (CD) spectroscopy. The conformational properties include the …

Analysis of thermal melting curves

JL Mergny, L Lacroix - Oligonucleotides, 2003‏ - liebertpub.com
Tm is defined as Temperature of melting or, more accurately, as temperature of
midtransition. This term is often used for nucleic acids (DNA and RNA, oligonucleotides and …

Circular dichroism and guanine quadruplexes

M Vorlíčková, I Kejnovská, J Sagi, D Renčiuk… - Methods, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Circular dichroism (CD) is remarkably sensitive to the conformational states of nucleic acids;
therefore, CD spectroscopy has been used to study most features of DNA and RNA …

Circular dichroism spectroscopy of DNA: from duplexes to quadruplexes

M Vorlíčková, I Kejnovská, K Bednářová, D Renčiuk… - Chirality, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids bear the genetic information and participate in its expression and evolution
during replication, repair, recombination, transcription, and translation. These phenomena …

Thermal difference spectra: a specific signature for nucleic acid structures

JL Mergny, J Li, L Lacroix, S Amrane… - Nucleic acids …, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
We show that nucleic acid structures may be conveniently and inexpensively characterized
by their UV thermal difference spectra. A thermal difference spectrum (TDS) is obtained for a …

The high-resolution crystal structure of a parallel-stranded guanine tetraplex

G Laughlan, AIH Murchie, DG Norman, MH Moore… - Science, 1994‏ - science.org
Repeat tracts of guanine bases found in DNA and RNA can form tetraplex structures in the
presence of a variety of monovalent cations. Evidence suggests that guanine tetraplexes …

A loop-loop" kissing" complex is the essential part of the dimer linkage of genomic HIV-1 RNA.

JC Paillart, E Skripkin, B Ehresmann… - Proceedings of the …, 1996‏ - pnas.org
RNA-RNA interactions govern a number of biological processes. Several RNAs, including
natural sense and antisense RNAs, interact by means of a two-step mechanism: recognition …

Molecular engineering of guanine-rich sequences: Z-DNA, DNA triplexes, and G-quadruplexes

O Doluca, JM Withers, VV Filichev - Chemical reviews, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
Guanine's array of hydrogen bond donors and acceptors lead it to take part in structures as
diverse as B-DNA, Z-DNA, hairpins, cruciforms, triplexes, and G-quadruplexes; these …

[HTML][HTML] A bouquet of DNA structures: Emerging diversity

M Kaushik, S Kaushik, K Roy, A Singh… - … and biophysics reports, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Structural polymorphism of DNA has constantly been evolving from the time of illustration of
the double helical model of DNA by Watson and Crick. A variety of non-canonical DNA …

Evidence for interstrand quadruplex formation in the dimerization of human immunodeficiency virus 1 genomic RNA.

WI Sundquist, S Heaphy - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1993‏ - pnas.org
Retroviruses package two homologous single-stranded RNA genomes within a gag protein-
RNA complex. In mature virion particles, the two RNA strands are thought to associate …