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Chem. Commun., 2006, 4685 - 4687, DOI: 10.1039/b611731g

Tetramethylpyridiniumporphyrazines—a new class of G-quadruplex inducing and stabilising ligands

Diana P. N. Gonçalves, Raphaël Rodriguez, Shankar Balasubramanian and Jeremy K. M. Sanders

3,4-Tetramethylpyridiniumporphyrazines bind strongly and selectively to human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA, inducing the formation of an antiparallel quadruplex in a process that mimics molecular chaperones.

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