Conspectus The significance of metal ions for the function and properties of DNA and RNA,
long seen primarily under biological aspects and medicinal uses, has recently gained a …

Tetrads (or quartets) are arrangements of four nucleobases commonly involved in the
stability of four-stranded nucleic acids structures. Four-stranded or quadruplex structures …

We have investigated the performance of the dispersion-corrected density functionals (BLYP-
D, BP86-D and PBE-D) and the widely used B3LYP functional for describing the hydrogen …

A computational analysis of d (GGGGTTTTGGGG) 2 guanine quadruplexes containing either
lateral or diagonal four-thymidine loops was carried out using molecular dynamics (MD) …

Human telomerase referred as 'terminal transferase'is a nucleoprotein enzyme which
inhibits the disintegration of telomere length and act as a drug target for the anticancer …

Guanine-rich DNA sequences are widely dispersed in the eukaryotic genome and are
abundant in regions with relevant biological significance. They can form quadruplex …

Nucleic acid tetraplexes and lipophilic self‐assembling G‐quadruplexes contain stacked
base tetrads with intercalated metal ions as basic building blocks. Thus far, quantum …

A cluster of four d (TG4T) hexanucleotides with the 3′-ends linked together by a bunchy
spacer has been synthesized and shown to form a monomolecular parallel quadruplex in …

We have carried out B3LYP hybrid density functional studies of complexes formed by cyclic
cytosine-, guanine-, thymine-, uracil-and mixed guanine cytosine-tetrads with Li+, Na+ and …

The formation of both isoguanine tetrad and isoguanine pentad alkali metal ion complexes
has been reported in experimental studies. We have performed B3LYP hybrid density …