Excess Electron Attachment to the Nucleoside Pair 2′-Deoxyadenosine (dA)–2′-Deoxythymidine (dT)

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• 作者：Piotr Storoniak ; Janusz Rak ; Yeon Jae Ko ; Haopeng Wang ; Kit H. Bowen
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 9, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：22
• 页码：4955-4962
• 全文大小：426K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5207

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The 2′-deoxyadenosine···2′-deoxythymidine (dAdT^•–) radical anion nucleoside pair has been investigated both experimentally and theoretically in the gas phase. The vertical detachment energy (VDE) and adiabatic electron affinity (AEA) were determined by anion photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). The measured photoelectron spectrum features a broad band having an onset at ∼1.1 eV and a maximum at the electron binding energy (EBE) ranging from 1.7 to 1.9 eV. Calculations performed at the M06-2X/6-31++G** level reveal that the observed PES signal is probably due to a dAdT^•– complex in which the thymine of the dT nucleoside forms hydrogen bonds that engage its O7 and O8 atoms as well as the 3′- and 5′-hydroxyl groups of 2′-deoxyadenosine (dA), while dT’s 3′-hydroxyl group interacts with the N1 of dA. In this heterodimer, the excess electron is entirely located on thymine. The biologically relevant Watson–Crick arrangement of the dAdT^•– dimer was found to be substantially less stable (by ∼19 kcal mol^–1 in Gibbs free energy scale) than the above-mentioned configuration; hence, it is not populated in the gas phase.