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 …

Ligand design to acquire specificity to intended G‐quadruplex structures

S Asamitsu, T Bando… - Chemistry–A European …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
AG‐quadruplex is a nucleic acid secondary structure that is adopted by guanine‐rich
sequences, and is considered to be relevant in various pharmacological and biological …

G4-quadruplex-binding proteins: review and insights into selectivity

V Meier-Stephenson - Biophysical reviews, 2022 - Springer
There are over 700,000 putative G4-quadruplexes (G4Qs) in the human genome, found
largely in promoter regions, telomeres, and other regions of high regulation. Growing …

Recent advances on G-quadruplex for biosensing, bioimaging and cancer therapy

J Xu, R Jiang, H He, C Ma, Z Tang - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
G-quadruplex is a three-dimensional secondary structure of nucleic acids formed by the
Hoogsteen hydrogen pairing of four guanines. Diverse topologies of G-quadruplex could be …

Common G-quadruplex binding agents found to interact with i-motif-forming DNA: Unexpected multi-target-directed compounds

A Pagano, N Iaccarino, MAS Abdelhamid… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
G-quadruplex (G4) and i-motif (iM) are four-stranded non-canonical nucleic acid structural
arrangements. Recent evidences suggest that these DNA structures exist in living cells and …

Conformational plasticity of DNA secondary structures: Probing the conversion between i-motif and hairpin species by circular dichroism and ultraviolet resonance …

J Amato, N Iaccarino, F D'Aria, F D'Amico… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The promoter regions of important oncogenes such as BCL2 and KRAS contain GC-rich
sequences that can form distinctive noncanonical DNA structures involved in the regulation …

Discriminating between parallel, anti-parallel and hybrid G-quadruplexes: mechanistic details on their binding to small molecules

T Biver - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
G-quadruplexes (G4) are now extensively recognised as a peculiar non-canonical DNA
geometry that plays a prime importance role in processes of biological relevance whose …

Mitochondrial genetic variation is enriched in G-quadruplex regions that stall DNA synthesis in vitro

TJ Butler, KN Estep, JA Sommers… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As the powerhouses of the eukaryotic cell, mitochondria must maintain their genomes which
encode proteins essential for energy production. Mitochondria are characterized by guanine …

G-quadruplex virtual drug screening: A review

RC Monsen, JO Trent - Biochimie, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades biologists and bioinformaticians have unearthed substantial
evidence supporting a role for G-quadruplexes as important mediators of biological …

Bio-Inspired Dual-Selective BCL-2/c-MYC G-Quadruplex Binders: Design, Synthesis, and Anticancer Activity of Drug-like Imidazo[2,1-i]purine Derivatives

S Pelliccia, J Amato, D Capasso… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the search for new drug-like selective G-quadruplex binders, a bioinspired design focused
on the use of nucleobases as synthons in a multicomponent reaction was herein proved to …