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May 28, 2007 Cover
Volume 85, Issue 22
COVER: Model of three telomeric G-quadruplex structures from a molecular dynamics simulation, based on a structure determined by Danzhou Yang and coworkers at the University of Arizona. Potassium ions are yellow and guanine bases are purple.
Volume 85, Issue 22
QUADRUPLEX DNA
Nucleic acid structures become promising drug targets
COVER: Model of three telomeric G-quadruplex structures from a molecular dynamics simulation, based on a structure determined by Danzhou Yang and coworkers at the University of Arizona. Potassium ions are yellow and guanine bases are purple.
Credit: Courtesy of John Trent andJonathan Chaires
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Volume 85, Issue 22
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Nucleic acid structures become promising drug targets
(pp. 12-17)
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