Radial migration of DNA molecules in cylindrical flow. I. Theory of the free-draining model.
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R H Shafer
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Radial migration of DNA molecules in cylindrical flow. II. The non-draining model and possible application to fractionation.
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Biological aspects of DNA/RNA quadruplexes.
Among the many unusual conformations of DNA and RNA, quadruplex structures, based on the guanine quartet, possess several unique properties. These properties, along with the general features of guanine quadruplexes, are described in the context of possible roles for these structures in biological systems. A variety of experimental observations supporting the notion that quadruplexes are important in vivo is presented, including proteins known to specifically bind to quadruplex structures, guanine-rich DNA, and RNA sequences endowed with the potential for forming quartet-based structures in telomeres and regulatory regions, such as gene promoters, quadruplexes as DNA aptamer folding motifs arising from in vitro selection experiments, and potential chemotherapeutic, quadruplex-forming oligonucleotides. Taken together, all of these observations argue cogently not only for the presence of quadruplexes in biological systems but also for their significance in terms of their roles in various biological processes.
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