Interlocked mismatch-aligned arrowhead DNA motifs.
Kettani, A., Bouaziz, S., Skripkin, E., Majumdar, A., Wang, W., Jones, R.A., Patel, D.J.(1999) Structure 7: 803-815
- PubMed: 10425682 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0969-2126(99)80104-x
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1B3P - PubMed Abstract: 
Triplet repeat sequences are of considerable biological importance as the expansion of such tandem arrays can lead to the onset of a range of human diseases. Such sequences can self-pair via mismatch alignments to form higher order structures that have the potential to cause replication blocks, followed by strand slippage and sequence expansion. The all-purine d(GGA)n triplet repeat sequence is of particular interest because purines can align via G.G, A.A and G.A mismatch formation.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.