Impacts of Molecular Structure on Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions

Richard P Bowater; Václav Brázda

doi:10.3390/ijms24010407

Impacts of Molecular Structure on Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions

Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Dec 26;24(1):407. doi: 10.3390/ijms24010407.

Authors

Richard P Bowater¹, Václav Brázda²

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
² Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.

Abstract

Interactions between nucleic acids and proteins are some of the most important interactions in biology because they are the cornerstones for fundamental biological processes, such as replication, transcription, and recombination [...].

Keywords: DNA base sequence; DNA structure; G-quadruplex; Z-DNA; cruciform; nucleic acid–protein interactions.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

DNA / chemistry
G-Quadruplexes*
Molecular Structure
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Nucleic Acids*
Proteins / metabolism

Substances

Nucleic Acids
DNA
Proteins

Grants and funding

Václav Brázda is supported by the Czech Science Foundation, grant number 22-21903S.