Frontiers in Nucleic Acids

Richard D. Sheardy, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Texas Woman's University Stephen A. Winkle, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University

Preface ; 1. Inhibition of G-Quadruplex Helicase Activity As Determined by Surface Plasmon Resonance ; Matthew Decker, Bhupendra Mishra, Dalip Kumar, and Wendi M. David ; 2. A Fluorescence-Based G-Quadruplex DNA Cleavage Assay ; Michelle Schoonover and Sean M. Kerwin ; 3. Biophysical Studies of the Structure, Stability, and Ligand Binding Properties of G-Quadruplex DNA: Thoughts and Comparisons of the K-ras, c-MYC, and Bcl-2 Oncogene Promoter Sequence Quadruplexes ; Jamie M. Dettler and Edwin A. Lewis ; 4. A CD Spectroscopic Investigation of Intermolecular and Intramolecular DNA Quadruplexes ; Brenna A. Tucker, Sahmla Gabriel, and Richard D. Sheardy ; 5. Nucleosomal DNA: Kinked, Not Kinked, or Self-Healing Material? ; Rajib Mukherjee and Thomas C. Bishop ; 6. The Size of Internal Loops Influences the Unfolding Thermodynamics of DNA Hairpins ; Iztok Prislan, Hui-Ting Lee, Cynthia Lee, and Luis A. Marky ; 7. A Thermodynamic Perspective of sRNA-mRNA Interactions and the Role of Hfq ; Kanav Jain, Taylor B. Updegrove, and Roger M. Wartell ; 8. Protein: Feeling the Groove of DNA ; Derrick Watkins, Lydia-Ann Harris, Gerald B. Koudelka, and Loren Dean Williams ; 9. Chemistry and Biology of Aflatoxin-DNA Adducts ; Michael P. Stone, Surajit Banerjee, Kyle L. Brown, and Martin Egli ; 10. Examining Flanking Sequence Specificity and Topological Specificity in the Binding of Various Molecular Types to DNAs Using Restriction Endonuclease Activity Assays ; S. A. Winkle, E. Duran, J. Pulido, G. Santil, M. Talavera, C. Winkle, R. D. Sheardy, and V. Ramsauer ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index