An Updated Focus on Quadruplex Structures as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Cancer Sánchez Martin, Victoria López Pujante, Carmen Soriano Rodríguez, Miguel García Salcedo, José A. DNA G-quadruplex RNA G-quadruplex i-Motif Cancer Non-canonical, four-stranded nucleic acids secondary structures are present within regulatory regions in the human genome and transcriptome. To date, these quadruplex structures include both DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes, formed in guanine-rich sequences, and i-Motifs, found in cytosine-rich sequences, as their counterparts. Quadruplexes have been extensively associated with cancer, playing an important role in telomere maintenance and control of genetic expression of several oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Therefore, quadruplex structures are considered attractive molecular targets for cancer therapeutics with novel mechanisms of action. In this review, we provide a general overview about recent research on the implications of quadruplex structures in cancer, firstly gathering together DNA G-quadruplexes, RNA G-quadruplexes as well as DNA i-Motifs. 2021-02-09T09:53:27Z 2021-02-09T09:53:27Z 2020-11-24 journal article Sanchez-Martin, V., Lopez-Pujante, C., Soriano-Rodriguez, M., & Garcia-Salcedo, J. A. (2020). An Updated Focus on Quadruplex Structures as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(23), 8900. [doi:10.3390/ijms21238900] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/66399 10.3390/ijms21238900 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España Mdpi