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tetrad

A four-stranded DNA structure, e.g. the i-tetrad, composed of parallel and anti-parallel poly(C) sequences in which all strands are equivalent and each C-C base pair shares a proton. Gehring, K., Leroy, J.-L. and Gueron, M. (1993) Nature (London) 363, 561-565
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