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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 39, Pages 12372-12387Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103593
Keywords
density functional calculations; NMR spectroscopy; nucleic acids; structure elucidation
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- Netherlands organization for Scientific Research (NWO-CW and NWO-NCF)
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [CTQ2005-08797-C02-01/BQU, CTQ2008-06532/BQU, CTQ2011-25086/BQU]
- Catalan Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society (DURSI) [2005SGR-00238, 2009SGR528]
- Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic [AV0Z50040507, AV0Z50040702]
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NMR chemical shifts are highly sensitive probes of local molecular conformation and environment and form an important source of structural information. In this study, the relationship between the NMR chemical shifts of nucleic acids and the glycosidic torsion angle, ?, has been investigated for the two commonly occurring sugar conformations. We have calculated by means of DFT the chemical shifts of all atoms in the eight DNA and RNA mono-nucleosides as a function of these two variables. From the DFT calculations, structures and potential energy surfaces were determined by using constrained geometry optimizations at the BP86/TZ2P level of theory. The NMR parameters were subsequently calculated by single-point calculations at the SAOP/TZ2P level of theory. Comparison of the 1H and 13C NMR shifts calculated for the mono-nucleosides with the shifts determined by NMR spectroscopy for nucleic acids demonstrates that the theoretical shifts are valuable for the characterization of nucleic acid conformation. For example, a clear distinction can be made between ? angles in the anti and syn domains. Furthermore, a quantitative determination of the ? angle in the syn domain is possible, in particular when 13C and 1H chemical shift data are combined. The approximate linear dependence of the C1' shift on the ? angle in the anti domain provides a good estimate of the angle in this region. It is also possible to derive the sugar conformation from the chemical shift information. The DFT calculations reported herein were performed on mono-nucleosides, but examples are also provided to estimate intramolecularly induced shifts as a result of hydrogen bonding, polarization effects, or ring-current effects.
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