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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 119, Issue 30, Pages 8269-8278Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b02848
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K05408] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The double-helical structures,of DNA are experimentally distinguished by the circular dichroism (CD) spectra. The CD spectra are quite different between the left- and right-handed double-helical structures of DNA. The lowest peak is negative for the left-handed Z-DNA but positive for the right-handed B-DNA. Using the Z-DNA model with a strong stacking interaction, we examined whether the CD spectra depend on the distance between the two base pairs, deoxy-guanosine (dG) and deoxy-cytidine (dC). The result showed that the feature of the SAC-CI CD spectra changes from Z-DNA to B-DNA when increasing the distance between the two base pairs. Therefore, we concluded that the stacking interaction is the origin of the lowest negative peak, being the feature of the CD spectra of Z-DNA, and at the same time that the lack of the negative peak at about 290-300 nm of the CD spectra of B-DNA is due to the weak stacking interaction in B-DNA.
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