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Journal of Nucleic Acids
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 6513720, 13 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6513720
Research Article

Putative HIV and SIV G-Quadruplex Sequences in Coding and Noncoding Regions Can Form G-Quadruplexes

Petra Krafčíková, Erika Demkovičová, Andrea Halaganová, and Viktor Víglaský

Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Safarik University, 04001 Kosice, Slovakia

Correspondence should be addressed to Viktor Víglaský; ks.sjpu@yksalgiv.rotkiv

Received 30 July 2017; Revised 26 September 2017; Accepted 18 October 2017; Published 31 December 2017

Academic Editor: Shozeb Haider

Copyright © 2017 Petra Krafčíková et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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