Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) USM 503, INSERM U565, CRNS UMR 5153, 43 rue Cuvier CP26, F-75231, Paris Cedex 05, France.
Abstract:
We demonstrate here that 8-amino guanine () strongly accelerates quadruplex formation, which makes this nucleobase the most attractive replacement for guanine in the context of tetramolecular parallel quadruplexes.