Ultrafast deactivation of an excited cytosine-guanine base pair in DNA

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6812-6819

  Groenhof, Gerrit ^a   Schäfer, Lars V ^a   Boggio Pasqua, Martial ^b   Goette, Maik ^a   Grubmüller, Helmut ^a   Robb, Michael A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; PROTON TRANSFER;

DEACTIVATION MECHANISMS; ELECTROSTATIC STABILIZATION; PHOTON ABSORPTION;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EXCITATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTON TRANSPORT; SIMULATION;

BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34249784523     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja069176c     Document Type: Article

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