“…Quadruplex Production and Purification-Synthetic hTR [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] RNA (5Ј-GGGUUGCGGAGGGUGGGCCU-3Ј, where the underlining highlights the guanines; Integrated DNA Technologies) was dissolved in 20 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, 100 mM KCl, 1 mM EDTA at a concentration of 5 M. RNA was heated to 95°C for 5 min, allowed to passively cool to room temperature outside the heat bath, and then purified by SEC on a HiLoad Superdex TM 75 26/60 size exclusion chromatography column (Ä KTA FPLC , GE Healthcare). Synthetic DNA quadruplexes (Alpha DNA, Canada) were dissolved in the above HEPES buffer but without adding EDTA, heated to 95°C, and allowed to cool slowly to room temperature inside the metal heat block or water bath.…”