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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2021

Ribose Alters the Photochemical Properties of the Nucleobase in Thionated Nucleosides.

Mikołaj J Janicki, Corinna L Kufner, Zoe R Todd, Seohyun C Kim, Derek K O'Flaherty, Jack W Szostak, Jiří Šponer, Robert W Góra, Dimitar D Sasselov, Rafał Szabla

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Mikołaj J JanickiDepartment of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7216-1389
Corinna L KufnerDepartment of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Zoe R ToddDepartment of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6116-4285
Seohyun C KimHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2230-1774
Derek K O'FlahertyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3693-6380
Jack W SzostakHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4131-1203
Jiří ŠponerInstitute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 61265 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6558-6186
Robert W GóraDepartment of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland.
Dimitar D SasselovDepartment of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Rafał SzablaEaStCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, David Brewster Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FJ, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1668-8044
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USWrocław University of Science and Technology · PLCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics · CZUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

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Abstract

Substitution of exocyclic oxygen with sulfur was shown to substantially influence the properties of RNA/DNA bases, which are crucial for prebiotic chemistry and photodynamic therapies. Upon UV irradiation, thionucleobases were shown to efficiently populate triplet excited states and can be involved in characteristic photochemistry or generation of singlet oxygen. Here, we show that the photochemistry of a thionucleobase can be considerably modified in a nucleoside, that is, by the presence of ribose. Our transient absorption spectroscopy experiments demonstrate that thiocytosine exhibits 5 times longer excited-state lifetime and different excited-state absorption features than thiocytidine. On the basis of accurate quantum chemical simulations, we assign these differences to the dominant population of a shorter-lived triplet nπ* state in the nucleoside and longer-lived triplet ππ* states in the nucleobase. This explains the distinctive photoanomerziation of thiocytidine and indicates that the nucleoside will be a less efficient phototherapeutic agent with regard to singlet oxygen generation.

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Photochemical ProcessesNucleosidesRiboseSulfurNucleosidesRiboseSulfur

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PMID34260253
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