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ArticleNucleic acids research2013

Electronic transition moments of 6-methyl isoxanthopterin--a fluorescent analogue of the nucleic acid base guanine.

Julia R Widom, Dmitrij Rappoport, Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, Hanna Thomsen, Neil P Johnson, Peter H von Hippel, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Andrew H Marcus

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Determination of two-photon absorption in nucleobase analogues: a QR-DFT perspective.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2022
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  6. Single-molecule FRET and linear dichroism studies of DNA breathing and helicase binding at replication fork junctions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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8 authors.

Julia R WidomOregon Center for Optics, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Dmitrij Rappoport
Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz
Hanna Thomsen
Neil P Johnson
Peter H von Hippel
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Andrew H Marcus

Funding

STRUCTURE AND RELATIONS OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDSR01GM015792 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI MARCUS, ANDREW HADLEY · 1985 to 2025
$10.2M
STRUCTURE &RELATIONS OF PROTEINS &NUCLEIC ACIDSR37GM015792 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI VON HIPPEL, PETER HANS · 1988 to 1997
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM-15792NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM015792
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescent nucleic acid base analogues are important spectroscopic tools for understanding local structure and dynamics of DNA and RNA. We studied the orientations and magnitudes of the electric dipole transition moments (EDTMs) of 6-methyl isoxanthopterin (6-MI), a fluorescent analogue of guanine that has been particularly useful in biological studies. Using a combination of absorption spectroscopy, linear dichroism (LD) and quantum chemical calculations, we identified six electronic transitions that occur within the 25,000-50,000 cm(-1) spectral range. Our results indicate that the two experimentally observed lowest-energy transitions, which occur at 29,687 cm(-1) (337 nm) and 34,596 cm(-1) (289 nm), are each polarized within the plane of the 6-MI base. A third in-plane polarized transition is experimentally observed at 47,547 cm(-1) (210 nm). The theoretically predicted orientation of the lowest-energy transition moment agrees well with experiment. Based on these results, we constructed an exciton model to describe the absorption spectra of a 6-MI dinucleotide-substituted double-stranded DNA construct. This model is in good agreement with the experimental data. The orientations and intensities of the low-energy electronic transitions of 6-MI reported here should be useful for studying local conformations of DNA and RNA in biologically important complexes.

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DNA, B-FormFluorescent DyesModels, ChemicalMolecular StructureSpectrophotometry, UltravioletXanthopterin6-methylisoxanthopterinDNA, B-FormFluorescent DyesXanthopterin

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PMID23185042
PMCPMC3553960

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