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ArticleBiology2021

Pressure Perturbation Studies of Noncanonical Viral Nucleic Acid Structures.

Judit Somkuti, Orsolya Réka Molnár, Anna Grád, László Smeller

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Article in Biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Pressure Tuning Studies of Four-Stranded Nucleic Acid Structures.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Judit SomkutiDepartment of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-9675-8091
Orsolya Réka MolnárDepartment of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
Anna GrádDepartment of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
László SmellerDepartment of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-3643-3268

Funding

National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary, NKFI K-124697.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G-quadruplexes are noncanonical structures formed by guanine-rich sequences of the genome. They are found in crucial loci of the human genome, they take part in the regulation of important processes like cell proliferation and cell death. Much less is known about the subjects of this work, the viral G-quadruplexes. We have chosen three potentially G-quadruplex-forming sequences of hepatitis B. We measured the stability and the thermodynamic parameters of these quadruplexes. We also investigated the potential stabilization of these G-quadruplexes by binding a special ligand that was originally developed for cancer therapy. Fluorescence and infrared spectroscopic measurements were performed over wide temperature and pressure ranges. Our experiments indicate the small unfolding volume change of all three oligos. We found a difference between the unfolding of the 2-quartet and the 3-quartet G-quadruplexes. All three G-quadruplexes were stabilized by TMPyP4, which is a cationic porphyrin developed for stabilizing the human telomere.

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DNAFRETFTIRG-quadruplexhepatitis BoligopressurespectroscopyTMPyP4volume change

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PMID34827166
PMCPMC8615049

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