Solvent effects on hydrogen bonds in Watson-Crick, mismatched, and modified DNA base pairs

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 998, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-63

  Poater, Jordi ^a   Swart, Marcel ^a,b   Guerra, Célia Fonseca ^c   Matthias Bickelhaupt, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Density functional calculations; DNA structure; Hydrogen bonding; Mismatched base pair; Solvent effects; Watson Crick base pair

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867138625     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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