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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Hydrogen Bonding in Natural and Unnatural Base Pairs-A Local Vibrational Mode Study.

Nassim Beiranvand, Marek Freindorf, Elfi Kraka

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nassim BeiranvandComputational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, TX 75275-0314, USA.
Marek FreindorfComputational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, TX 75275-0314, USA.
Elfi KrakaComputational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, TX 75275-0314, USA.
Southern Methodist University · US

Funding

National Science Foundation Grant 1464906
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this work hydrogen bonding in a diverse set of 36 unnatural and the three natural Watson Crick base pairs adenine (A)-thymine (T), adenine (A)-uracil (U) and guanine (G)-cytosine (C) was assessed utilizing local vibrational force constants derived from the local mode analysis, originally introduced by Konkoli and Cremer as a unique bond strength measure based on vibrational spectroscopy. The local mode analysis was complemented by the topological analysis of the electronic density and the natural bond orbital analysis. The most interesting findings of our study are that (i) hydrogen bonding in Watson Crick base pairs is not exceptionally strong and (ii) the N-H⋯N is the most favorable hydrogen bond in both unnatural and natural base pairs while O-H⋯N/O bonds are the less favorable in unnatural base pairs and not found at all in natural base pairs. In addition, the important role of non-classical C-H⋯N/O bonds for the stabilization of base pairs was revealed, especially the role of C-H⋯O bonds in Watson Crick base pairs. Hydrogen bonding in Watson Crick base pairs modeled in the DNA via a QM/MM approach showed that the DNA environment increases the strength of the central N-H⋯N bond and the C-H⋯O bonds, and at the same time decreases the strength of the N-H⋯O bond. However, the general trends observed in the gas phase calculations remain unchanged. The new methodology presented and tested in this work provides the bioengineering community with an efficient design tool to assess and predict the type and strength of hydrogen bonding in artificial base pairs.

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Base PairingVibrationDNAHydrogen BondingThermodynamicsDNAhydrogen bondinglocal vibrational mode analysisnatural base pairsunnatural base pairsvibrational spectroscopy

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PMID33919989
PMCPMC8071019
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