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How Flexible are DNA Constituents? The Quantum-Mechanical Study

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Pages 563-575 | Received 04 Mar 2011, Published online: 15 May 2012

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M. Alcolea Palafox, S. M. Chalanchi, J. Isasi, R. Premkumar, A. Milton Franklin Benial & V. K. Rastogi. (2020) Effect of bromine atom on the different tautomeric forms of microhydrated 5-bromouracil, in the DNA:RNA microhelix and in the interaction with human proteins. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 38:18, pages 5443-5463.
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Ol’ha O. Brovarets’, Yevgen P. Yurenko & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2015) The significant role of the intermolecular CH⋯O/N hydrogen bonds in governing the biologically important pairs of the DNA and RNA modified bases: a comprehensive theoretical investigation. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 33:8, pages 1624-1652.
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Ol’ha O. Brovarets’ & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2015) The nature of the transition mismatches with Watson–Crick architecture: the G*·T or G·T* DNA base mispair or both? A QM/QTAIM perspective for the biological problem. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 33:5, pages 925-945.
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Ol’ha O. Brovarets’, Roman O. Zhurakivsky & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2015) DPT tautomerisation of the wobble guanine·thymine DNA base mispair is not mutagenic: QM and QTAIM arguments. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 33:3, pages 674-689.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets’, Roman O. Zhurakivsky & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2014) A QM/QTAIM microstructural analysis of the tautomerisation via the DPT of the hypoxanthine·adenine nucleobase pair. Molecular Physics 112:15, pages 2005-2016.
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Anna Maciaszek, Katarzyna Jastrzębska & Piotr Guga. (2019) Homopurine R P -stereodefined phosphorothioate analogs of DNA with hampered Watson–Crick base pairings form Hoogsteen paired parallel duplexes with (2′-OMe)-RNAs . Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 17:18, pages 4611-4620.
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Mauricio Alcolea Palafox. (2019) Effect of the sulfur atom on S2 and S4 positions of the uracil ring in different DNA:RNA hybrid microhelixes with three nucleotide base pairs. Biopolymers 110:3, pages e23247.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets'Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa, Andrii Dinets & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) Unexpected Routes of the Mutagenic Tautomerization of the T Nucleobase in the Classical A·T DNA Base Pairs: A QM/QTAIM Comprehensive View. Frontiers in Chemistry 6.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets', Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) Unexpected A·T(WC)↔A·T(rWC)/A·T(rH) and A·T(H)↔A·T(rH)/A·T(rWC) conformational transitions between the classical A·T DNA base pairs: A QM/QTAIM comprehensive study. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 118:18, pages e25674.
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Ol’ha O. Brovarets’, Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) Non-dissociative structural transitions of the Watson-Crick and reverse Watson-Crick А·Т DNA base pairs into the Hoogsteen and reverse Hoogsteen forms. Scientific Reports 8:1.
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Ol’ha O. Brovarets’, Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) Novel pathway for mutagenic tautomerization of classical А∙Т DNA base pairs via sequential proton transfer through quasi-orthogonal transition states: A QM/QTAIM investigation. PLOS ONE 13:6, pages e0199044.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets'Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) Surprising Conformers of the Biologically Important A·T DNA Base Pairs: QM/QTAIM Proofs. Frontiers in Chemistry 6.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets', Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) The A·T(rWC)/A·T(H)/A·T(rH) ↔ A·T*(rw WC )/A·T*(w H )/A·T*(rw H ) mutagenic tautomerization via sequential proton transfer: a QM/QTAIM study . RSC Advances 8:24, pages 13433-13445.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets', Ivan S. Voiteshenko & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2018) Physico-chemical profiles of the wobble ↔ Watson–Crick G*·2AP(w) ↔ G·2AP(WC) and A·2AP(w) ↔ A*·2AP(WC) tautomerisations: a QM/QTAIM comprehensive survey. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20:1, pages 623-636.
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O.O. Brovarets & D.M. Hovorun. (2015) How Do Long Improper Purine-Purine Pairs of DNA Bases Adapt The Enzymatycally Competent Conformation? Structural Mechanism And Its Quantum-Mechanical Grounds. Ukrainian Journal of Physics 60:8, pages 748-756.
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T. M. Mukhina. (2015) The effect of chlorination of nucleotide bases on the conformational properties of thymidine monophosphate. The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal 87:2, pages 141-155.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets' & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2015) A novel conception for spontaneous transversions caused by homo-pyrimidine DNA mismatches: a QM/QTAIM highlight. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17:33, pages 21381-21388.
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Richard J. Calloway, Michael D. Proctor, Victor M. Boyer & Samantha Napier. (2014) A computational study of dsDNA pairs and vibrational resonance in separating water. Systems and Synthetic Biology 8:4, pages 329-335.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets', Roman O. Zhurakivsky & Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2014) Is the DPT tautomerization of the long A·G Watson-Crick DNA base mispair a source of the adenine and guanine mutagenic tautomers? A QM and QTAIM response to the biologically important question. Journal of Computational Chemistry 35:6, pages 451-466.
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Ol'ha O. Brovarets'Dmytro M. Hovorun. (2013) Atomistic nature of the DPT tautomerisation of the biologically important C·C* DNA base mispair containing amino and imino tautomers of cytosine: a QM and QTAIM approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15:46, pages 20091.
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