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Photoreactivity of 5-iodouracil-containing telomeric DNA
1 Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan, 2 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
The photoreaction of 5-iodouracil-(IU)-containing telomeric oligonucleotides in parallel or antiparallel structures, generated in the presence of K+ or Na+ ions, was investigated. It was found that the photoreactivity of telomeric DNA depends on the differences in the quadruplex conformations in the presence of K+ or Na+ ions.