Formation pathways of a guanine-quadruplex DNA revealed by molecular dynamics and thermodynamic analysis of the substates.

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Published in Biophys J on September 01, 2003

Authors

Richard Stefl1, Thomas E Cheatham, Nad'a Spacková, Eva Fadrná, Imre Berger, Jaroslav Koca, Jirí Sponer

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1: National Center for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, 612 37 Brno, Czech Republic.

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