Ag+-Mediated Folding of Long Polyguanine Strands to Double and Quadruple Helixes
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
2.2. DNA Synthesis
2.3. Separation of Poly(dG)-poly(dC) Strands
2.4. Preparation of G-Ag+-G Conjugates
2.5. CD Spectroscopy
2.6. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
2.7. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
2.8. Computational Details
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Katrivas, L.; Makarovsky, A.; Kempinski, B.; Randazzo, A.; Improta, R.; Rotem, D.; Porath, D.; Kotlyar, A.B. Ag+-Mediated Folding of Long Polyguanine Strands to Double and Quadruple Helixes. Nanomaterials 2024, 14, 663. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14080663
Katrivas L, Makarovsky A, Kempinski B, Randazzo A, Improta R, Rotem D, Porath D, Kotlyar AB. Ag+-Mediated Folding of Long Polyguanine Strands to Double and Quadruple Helixes. Nanomaterials. 2024; 14(8):663. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14080663
Chicago/Turabian StyleKatrivas, Liat, Anna Makarovsky, Benjamin Kempinski, Antonio Randazzo, Roberto Improta, Dvir Rotem, Danny Porath, and Alexander B. Kotlyar. 2024. "Ag+-Mediated Folding of Long Polyguanine Strands to Double and Quadruple Helixes" Nanomaterials 14, no. 8: 663. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14080663