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SUBMITTER: de La Harpe K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2792762 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de La Harpe Kimberly K Crespo-Hernández Carlos E CE Kohler Bern B
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20091201 48
Isotope effects on the excited-state dynamics of single- and double-stranded GC-containing DNAs were studied by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. A pronounced deuterium isotope effect was observed in alternating d(GC)(9).d(GC)(9), but none was seen in the nonalternating or single-stranded variations investigated. These findings demonstrate that an interstrand process involving proton-coupled electron transfer contributes to the excited-state dynamics in DNAs having an appropriate ba ...[more]