UV excitation of single DNA and RNA strands produces high yields of exciplex states between two stacked bases

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 10285-10290

  Takaya, Tomohisa ^a,b   Su, Charlene ^a   De La Harpe, Kimberly ^a   Crespo Hernández, Carlos E ^a,c   Kohler, Bern ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA excited states; DNA photodamage; Electronic structure; Femtosecond spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE APA; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE APC; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE APG; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE APU; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE CPG; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 48749126017     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802079105     Document Type: Article

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