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ReviewPhotochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology2020

Studying the excited electronic states of guanine rich DNA quadruplexes by quantum mechanical methods: main achievements and perspectives.

Lara Martínez-Fernández, Luciana Esposito, Roberto Improta

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Review in Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  6. Electron Holes in G-Quadruplexes: The Role of Adenine Ending Groups.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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Lara Martínez-FernándezDepartamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Modulo 13 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
Luciana EspositoIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, CNR, Via Mezzocannone 16, Napoli, I-80134, Italy.
Roberto ImprotaIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, CNR, Via Mezzocannone 16, Napoli, I-80134, Italy. robimp@unina.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main insights into the photoactivated dynamics of guanine quadruplexes (G4s) recently provided by quantum mechanical computations are concisely reviewed here. The experimental steady state absorption and circular dichroism spectra of different topologies can be reproduced and assigned. After light absorption from excited states delocalized over multiple bases, the most important decay pathways involve localization of the excitation over a single base or on two stacked guanines, excimers with different degrees of charge transfer character. Two main photochemical reactions are discussed. One involves the photodimerization of two stacked guanine bases on the 'neutral' excimer path. The other, ionization of guanine, which triggers deprotonation of the resulting cation to form (G-H2)˙ and (G-H1)˙ radicals. Both the static and dynamical properties of G4 excited states are ruled by their topology and modulated by the inner coordinated metal ions.

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ElectronsQuantum TheoryDNAG-QuadruplexesGuanineLightDNAGuanine

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