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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 109, Issue 49, Pages 23698-23705Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp054280m
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A correlation of the changes in vibrational absorption and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectral features with the structural changes of polyriboadenylic acid (polyA) as a function of pH is reported. Analysis of the solution spectral data as a function of pH led us to establishing the importance of a previously unrecognized absorption band at similar to 1665 cm(-1). The present studies indicate that this absorption band and associated VCD originate from the double-helical structure of polyA. The observed changes in solution-state VCD features are indicative of the pH-dependent transitions among the three acidic forms of polyA (A, B, and frozen form). In addition to the solution-state spectral data, pH-dependent absorption and VCD spectra for films of polyA, derived from dilute H2O solutions, are also presented. The pH-dependent changes in the absorption and VCD spectra of films are also correlated to the polyA structural changes.
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