Journal articleAuthors : Raguseo, Federica (2023)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two neurodegenerative diseases genetically characterised by the expansion of the hexanucleotide repeat (GGGGCC)n. Here we investigated the formation of nucleic-acid secondary structures in the expansion repeats, and their role in generating aggregates that are characteristic of ALS/FDT. We observed significant aggregation of DNA (GGGGCC)n, which we ascribe to the formation of multimolecular G-quadruplexes&...