This unusual triple helix was observed in the heterochromatin ... in the journal Nature Chemistry identified quadruple helix DNA – another unusual conformation for this molecule – in human cancer ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Thus, if one knows the sequence of a gene—from Human Genome Project ... that the triple helix structure could indeed be exploited to design oligonucleotides (DNA strands about 15 nucleotides ...

The discovery of DNA as a double helix is a ... such as triple helices or cruciforms. And the i-motif is not the first four-stranded structure to be found in human cells; scientists already ...

Its intrinsic RNA subunit provides the template for synthesis of telomeric DNA by the reverse ... protruding from the triple helix participate in both yeast and human telomerase catalysis; they ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two orangutans to predict where DNA sequences might form alternative structures ...

Now, in the year of that scientific landmark's 60th Anniversary, Cambridge researchers have published a paper proving that four-stranded 'quadruple helix' DNA structures - known as G-quadruplexes - ...

Humans and baker's yeast have more in common ... then assembles the missing halves of the strands, turning a single DNA helix into two. Much of this work falls to enzymes called polymerases ...