Effect of GC base pairs on charge transfer through DNA hairpins: The importance of electrostatic interactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 14204-14205

  Grozema, Ferdinand C ^a   Tonzani, Stefano ^b   Berlin, Yuri A ^b   Schatz, George C ^b   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIR SEQUENCES; BASE PAIRS; CHARGE TRANSFER KINETICS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DNA HAIRPIN; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; MODEL SYSTEM; STACKED SYSTEMS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; GENES; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DNA; DNA B; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; STILBENE;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTRICITY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STILBENES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 70349903246     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja906863k     Document Type: Article

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