B-DNA model systems in non-terran bio-solvents: implications for structure, stability and replication

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (26) ◽  
pp. 16969-16978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor A. Hamlin ◽  
Jordi Poater ◽  
Célia Fonseca Guerra ◽  
F. Matthias Bickelhaupt

We have computationally analyzed a comprehensive series of Watson–Crick and mismatched B-DNA base pairs, in the gas phase and in several solvents, including toluene, chloroform, ammonia, methanol and water, using dispersion-corrected density functional theory and implicit solvation.

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 8491-8501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevgeniy Nosenko ◽  
Christoph Riehn ◽  
Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg

Metal base pairs comprised of silver dimer or trimer and two thymines were studied by IR dissociation spectroscopy and density functional theory.


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