Single-stranded DNA designed lipophilic G-quadruplexes as transmembrane channels for switchable potassium transport

Chunying Li1, Hui Chen1, Li Zhou1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Bio-Nanotechnology and Molecular Engineering of Hunan Province, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China. liujianbo@hnu.edu.cn yangxiaohai@hnu.edu.cn.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 11, 2019
PubMed

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