Research Article

Unusual Chair-Like G-Quadruplex Structures: Heterochiral TBA Analogues Containing Inversion of Polarity Sites

Table 1

Heterochiral sequences investigated, their parent ODNs, and melting temperatures ().

NameSequencea (°C)

TBA5′GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG3′50
TBA-all L5′ggttggtgtggttgg3′50b
D135′ggTTggtgtggTTgg3′52b
H15′gg3′-3′TT5′-5′ggtgtgg3′-3′TT5′-5′gg3′50
H25′gg3′-3′TT5′-5′gg3′-3′TGT5′-5′gg3′-3′TT5′-5′gg3′41
H35′gGTTGgtgtgGTTGg3′42

L-residues are in lower case letters; see [9].