Non-canonical DNA structures: Diversity and disease association

A Bansal, S Kaushik, S Kukreti - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A complete understanding of DNA double-helical structure discovered by James Watson
and Francis Crick in 1953, unveil the importance and significance of DNA. For the last seven …

[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 …

Structurally diverse G-quadruplexes as the noncanonical nucleic acid drug target for live cell imaging and antibacterial study

BX Zheng, J Yu, W Long, KH Chan… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of G-quadruplex structures (G4s) in vitro from guanine (G)-rich nucleic acid
sequences of DNA and RNA stabilized with monovalent cations, typically K+ and Na+, under …

Oxidative stress: role and response of short guanine tracts at genomic locations

A Singh, R Kukreti, L Saso, S Kukreti - International Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the decades, oxidative stress has emerged as a major concern to biological
researchers. It is involved in the pathogenesis of various lifestyle-related diseases such as …

Unraveling the sequence-dependent polymorphic behavior of d (CpG) steps in B-DNA

PD Dans, I Faustino, F Battistini… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We have made a detailed study of one of the most surprising sources of polymorphism in B-
DNA: the high twist/low twist (HT/LT) conformational change in the d (CpG) base pair step …

Specific Binding of Anionic Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine to the G-Quadruplex with a Variety of in Vitro and in Vivo Applications

H Yaku, T Murashima, D Miyoshi, N Sugimoto - Molecules, 2012 - mdpi.com
The G-quadruplex, a four-stranded DNA structure with stacked guanine tetrads (G-quartets),
has recently been attracting attention because of its critical roles in vitro and in vivo. In …

Interface of G-quadruplex with both stabilizing and destabilizing ligands for targeting various diseases

S Chaudhary, M Kumar, M Kaushik - International Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Guanine-rich DNA sequences may fold back into non-canonical four-stranded secondary
structures termed as G-quadruplexes. The role of G-quadruplexes has already been well …

Chemical Biology of Double Helical and Non-Double Helical Nucleic Acids: “To B or Not To B, That Is the Question”

N Sugimoto, T Endoh, S Takahashi… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nucleic acids form not only the canonical double helix (duplex) but also the non-canonical
(non-double helix) structures such as triplexes, G-quadruplexes, and i-motifs. The formation …

Binding of G-quadruplexes to the N-terminal recognition domain of the RNA helicase associated with AU-rich element (RHAU)

M Meier, TR Patel, EP Booy, O Marushchak… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
Polynucleotides containing consecutive tracts of guanines can adopt an intramolecular G-
quadruplex structure where multiple planar tetrads of hydrogen-bound guanines stack on …

G-quadruplex prediction in E. coli genome reveals a conserved putative G-quadruplex-Hairpin-Duplex switch

OI Kaplan, B Berber, N Hekim… - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Many studies show that short non-coding sequences are widely conserved among
regulatory elements. More and more conserved sequences are being discovered since the …