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An Updated Focus on Quadruplex Structures as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Cancer

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2020-11-24

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Sanchez-Martin, Victoria
Lopez-Pujante, Carmen
Soriano-Rodriguez, Miguel
Garcia-Salcedo, Jose A.

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Non-canonical, four-stranded nucleic acids secondary structures are present within regulatory regions in the human genome and transcriptome. To date, these quadruplex structures include both DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes, formed in guanine-rich sequences, and i-Motifs, found in cytosine-rich sequences, as their counterparts. Quadruplexes have been extensively associated with cancer, playing an important role in telomere maintenance and control of genetic expression of several oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Therefore, quadruplex structures are considered attractive molecular targets for cancer therapeutics with novel mechanisms of action. In this review, we provide a general overview about recent research on the implications of quadruplex structures in cancer, firstly gathering together DNA G-quadruplexes, RNA G-quadruplexes as well as DNA i-Motifs.

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Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Heterocyclic Compounds::Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring::Pyrimidines::Pyrimidinones::Cytosine
Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides::Nucleic Acids::DNA
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Processes::Gene Expression Regulation::Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Heterocyclic Compounds::Heterocyclic Compounds, 2-Ring::Purines::Purinones::Hypoxanthines::Guanine
Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans
Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Neoplasms
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Structures::Genome::Genome Components::Genes::Genes, Neoplasm::Oncogenes
Medical Subject Headings::Anatomy::Cells::Cellular Structures::Intracellular Space::Cell Nucleus::Cell Nucleus Structures::Intranuclear Space::Chromosomes::Chromosome Structures::Telomere
Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins::Proteins::Neoplasm Proteins::Tumor Suppressor Proteins
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Structures::Nucleic Acid Conformation::G-Quadruplexes
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Therapeutics::Drug Therapy::Molecular Targeted Therapy

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DNA G-quadruplex, RNA G-quadruplex, i-Motif, Cancer, G-Cuádruplex, Neoplasias, Ácidos nucleicos, Citosina, ADN, Guanina, Oncogenes, Telómero

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Sanchez-Martin V, Lopez-Pujante C, Soriano-Rodriguez M, Garcia-Salcedo JA. An Updated Focus on Quadruplex Structures as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Cancer. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Nov 24;21(23):8900