Molecular Medicine & Pathology seminar: G-quadruplex structures in DNA: Genotyping vexation or fundamental genomic feature? Event as iCalendar
23 October 2012
3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 501-505, Building 501, 85 Park Road, Grafton
DNA can adopt many unusual structures and it is apparent that these can play very important roles in biology. We have tripped over a weird in vitro phenomenon and think that its explanation may lie in the formation of stable G-quadruplex structures in the promoter region of a gene called MEST. These secondary structural features appear to be yet another layer of information coded by the human genome, with important roles to play in gene regulation, DNA replication and other fundamental biological processes.
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