G_quartet

Term ID

SO:0000003

Synonyms

• G quartet
• G tetrad
• G-quadruplex
• G-quartet
• G-tetrad
• G_quadruplex
• guanine tetrad

Definition

G-quartets are unusual nucleic acid structures consisting of a planar arrangement where each guanine is hydrogen bonded by hoogsteen pairing to another guanine in the quartet. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7919797?dopt=Abstract

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-quadruplex

Ontology

Sequence Ontology