Double proton transfer in the isolated and DMA-embedded guanine-cytosine base pair

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4377-4388

  Zoete, Vincent ^a,b   Meuwly, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERS; DNA; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DOUBLE PROTON TRANSFER (DPT); EXCITED STATES; ISOLATED NUCLEOBASES;

PROTEINS;

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; PROTON;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; PROTONS;

EID: 4644302325     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1774152     Document Type: Article

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