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345-P os B oard #B100 G-QUADRUPLEX DNA FOLDING AND DYNAMICS WITHIN DUPLEX DNA. Alex Kreig , Jacob Calvert, Ramreddy Tippana, Su-a Myong 346-P os B oard #B101 VALIDATION AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF RIBOSOMAL G-QUADRUPLEXES WITH MD SIMULATIONS. Adam T. Green , Samuel Cho 347-P os B oard #B102 G-QUADRUPLEX FOLDING DEPENDS ON ITS LOOP SIZE AND SEQUENCE: EXTREME FAST FOLDING KINETICS OBSERVED IN HUMAN TELOMERE AND ITS ISOMER. Ramreddy Tippana , Weikun Xiao, Sua Myong 348-P os B oard #B103 DNA I-MOTIF PROBED BY PHOTOACOUSTIC CALORIMETRY. David Butcher , Jaroslava Miksovska 349-P os B oard #B104 THERMODYNAMICS OF THE G-QUADRUPLEX FORMATION OF MODIFIED HUMAN TELOMERIC SEQUENCES. Yang Li , Robert B. Macgregor, Bita Zamiri 350-P os B oard #B105 MICROHETEROGENEITY OF TELOMERIC DNA GUANINE RESIDUES: PH DEPENDENT SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF FLUORESCENTLY LABELED MODEL TRINUCLEOTIDES. Yasemin Kopkalli , Aleksander Smirnov, Jay R. Knutson, Lesley Davenport 351-P os B oard #B106 POLYELECTROLYTE EFFECTS IN G-QUADRUPLEXES. Byul Kim, Yuen L. Shek, Tigran V. Chalikian 352-P os B oard #B107 STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND POLYMORPHISM OF TELO- MERIC G-QUADRUPLEX DNA STRUCTURES. Sofie L. Kragh, Søren Preus, Daniel Gudnason, Jean-Louis Mergny, Victoria Birkedal 353-P os B oard #B108 KINETICS OF TWO SLOW CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS OF THE QUADRUPLEX STRUCTURE OF THE THROMBIN BINDING APTAMER ANDTHEIR POTASSIUMDEPENDENCE. Harikrushan Ranpura , Philp H. Bolton 354-P os B oard #B109 Z-DNA-FORMING TG REPEATS ARE DYNAMIC MECHANICAL SWITCHES SENSITIVE TO TENSION AND TORSION. Sook Ho Kim, Nam-Kyung Lee, Joon-Hwa Lee, Seok-Cheol Hong 355-P os B oard #B110 COARSE-GRAINED MODELLING OF EXTREME DNA BENDING. Ryan M. Harrison , A. A. Louis, Jonathan P.K. Doye 356-P os B oard #B111 TRANSIENT KINETICS MEASURED WITH FORCE STEPS DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ELONGATION AND MELTING AND DEFINE THE REACTION ENERGETICS. Pasquale Bianco , Lorenzo Bongini, Luca Melli, Vincenzo Lombardi 357-P os B oard #B112 DIAMINOPURINE-SUBSTITUTION MODIFY DNA ELASTICITY AND FAVORS L-HELICES. Qing Shao , Monica Fernandez, Sharon Owino, Yoojin Lee, Laura Finzi, David Dunlap 358-P os B oard #B113 BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF POSITIVELY SUPERCOILED DNA. Andrea M. Berrido , Andrew Chen, Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh, Fenfei Leng

359-P os B oard #B114 A COMBINED NMR AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS INVESTIGATION OF SEQUENCE CONTEXT EFFECTS ON BACKBONE DYNAMICS OF DNA. Kiley Lawrence 360-P os B oard #B115 STUDIES OF DNA BREATHING AND HELICASE MECHANISMS BY SINGLE MOLECULE (SM) FRET BETWEEN 6-MI AND CY3 IN DNA REPLICATION FORK CONSTRUCTS. Wonbae Lee , John P. Gillies, Huiying Ji, Carey E. Phelps, Davis Jose, Peter H. von Hippel, Andrew H. Marcus 361-P os B oard #B116 DETERMINING THE QUANTITATIVE DYNAMICS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS IN LIVE CELLS THROUGH RICS AND IMSD APPROACHES. Stephen P. Mieruszynski , Michelle A. Digman, Enrico Gratton, Mark Jones 362-P os B oard #B117 PHOTOPHYSICAL AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF DOUBLY LINKED CY3 - DNA CONSTRUCTS. Ning Ma , Elana Stennett, Marcia Levitus, Arjan van der Vaart 363-P os B oard #B118 ASSOCIATED ANISOTROPY DECAYS OF ETHIDIUM BROMIDE INTERACTING WITH DNA. Rahul Chib , Sangram Raut, Sarika Sabnis, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski 364-P os B oard #B119 COMPARING OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC TWEEZERS FOR STUDYING THE RECQ HELICASE. Maria Marti-Prieto , Maria Manosas, Felix Ritort 365-P os B oard #B120 SINGLE MOLECULE OBSERVATION OF CYCLIZATION OF SHORT DNA DUPLEX. Teckla Akinyi , I-Ren Lee, Taekjip Ha 366-P os B oard #B121 NANOIMAGING OF THE CELL NUCLEUS USING GOLD NANOPARTICLES. Andrea Anzalone , Chiara Stringari, Enrico Gratton 367-P os B oard #B122 PROMOTER REPRESSION BY STRONG DNA BENDING. Nicole A. Becker , Justin P. Peters, L. James Maher III 368-P os B oard #B123 TORSIONAL BEHAVIOR OF NUCLEOSOME ARRAYS. Gi-Moon Nam , Gaurav Arya 369-P os B oard #B124 INVESTIGATING THE CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF DNA WITH LESIONS THROUGH FLUORESCENCE-BASED TECHNNIQUES AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS. Elana M.S. Stennett , David L. Dotson, Elizabeth J. Denning, Oliver Beckstein, Marcia Levitus 370-P os B oard #B125 CHARACTERIZATION OF RIGHT-HANDED B-DNA IN STAGE 0 (IN SITU) HUMAN MELANOMA TISSUE. Claude E. Gagna , Peter Lambert, W. Clark Lambert 371-P os B oard #B126 DOUBLE-STRANDED B-DNA: PRESENCE IN HUMAN MELANOMA TISSUE (STAGE III). Claude E. Gagna , Muhammad Malik, Akshay Sharma, David Dursunian, Peter Lambert, W. Clark Lambert

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