Photoinduced charge separation and DNA self-repair depend on sequence directionality and stacking pattern

Author:

Kufner Corinna L.1ORCID,Crucilla Sarah12ORCID,Ding Dian34ORCID,Stadlbauer Petr56ORCID,Šponer Jiří56ORCID,Szostak Jack W.78ORCID,Sasselov Dimitar D.1ORCID,Szabla Rafał9ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

3. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA

4. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

5. Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic

6. Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacky University Olomouc, Slechtitelu 241/27, 783 71, Olomouc – Holice, Czech Republic

7. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

8. Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

9. Institute of Advanced Materials, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, Wrocław, 50-370, Poland

Abstract

The exposure of DNA to UV light may result in electron transfer between the bases. It can entail self-repair of common DNA lesions and the efficiency of these two processes is controlled by stacking overlap of the nucleobases.

Funder

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Simons Foundation

Grantová Agentura České Republiky

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

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