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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2020 Sep 18;67:9–17. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2020.08.003

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Details of the structural hierarchy of the major GQ structure formed in the human c-MYC promoter. (a) Guanine-rich sequences with four runs of at least three guanines self-associate into tetrads, consisting of a square planar arrangement of (b) Hoogsteen hydrogen-bonded guanines. (c) Monovalent metal ions, typically K+ (tan), stabilize the tetrad core and the highly ordered structure.