The application of DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes to therapeutic medicines

GW Collie, GN Parkinson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The intriguing structural diversity in folded topologies available to guanine-rich nucleic acid
repeat sequences have made four-stranded G-quadruplex structures the focus of both basic …

Stability and kinetics of G-quadruplex structures

AN Lane, JB Chaires, RD Gray… - Nucleic acids research, 2008 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we give an overview of recent literature on the structure and stability of
unimolecular G-rich quadruplex structures that are relevant to drug design and for in vivo …

A hitchhiker's guide to G-quadruplex ligands

D Monchaud, MP Teulade-Fichou - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, nucleic acid chemists have seen the spectacular emergence of
molecules designed to interact efficiently and selectively with a peculiar DNA structure …

Interaction of metal complexes with G‐quadruplex DNA

SN Georgiades, NH Abd Karim… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Guanine‐rich sequences of DNA can assemble into tetrastranded structures known as G‐
quadruplexes. It has been suggested that these secondary DNA structures could be …

Four-stranded nucleic acids: structure, function and targeting of G-quadruplexes

JL Huppert - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
There are many structures that can be adopted by nucleic acids other than the famous
Watson–Crick duplex form. This tutorial review describes the guanine rich G-quadruplex …

NMR spectroscopy of G-quadruplexes

M Adrian, B Heddi, AT Phan - Methods, 2012 - Elsevier
G-rich DNA and RNA sequences can form four-stranded structures called G-quadruplexes.
Such structures have gained significant interest in the past decade with increasing evidence …

Chemistry in human telomere biology: structure, function and targeting of telomere DNA/RNA

Y Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Telomeres are present at the ends of all eukaryotic chromosomes. Human telomeres play an
important role in critical processes underlying genome stability, cancer, and aging, and their …

Solution Structure of a G‐quadruplex Bound to the Bisquinolinium Compound Phen‐DC3

WJ Chung, B Heddi, F Hamon… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Phen‐DC3 is a highly promising compound that specifically targets G‐quadruplexes, with
potent biological effects observed in vivo. We used NMR spectroscopy to solve the structure …

Methods for investigating G-quadruplex DNA/ligand interactions

P Murat, Y Singh, E Defrancq - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA is considered an important target for drug design and development. Until recently, the
focus was on double-stranded (duplex) DNA structures. However, it has now been shown …

Crosstalk between G-quadruplex and ROS

S Wu, L Jiang, L Lei, C Fu, J Huang, Y Hu… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can lead to single nucleic acid
base damage, DNA strand breakage, inter-and intra-strand cross-linking of nucleic acids …