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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27535-7
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- H2020 Grant [765266]
- European Research Council Advanced Grant STRATUS (ERC-2011-AdG) [291198]
- Marie Curie Actions [328110]
- PRIN 2017 project PHANTOMS [2017A4XRCA]
- Agence National de la Recherche project FEMTO-2DNA [ANR-15-CE-29-0010]
Researchers have found that 5-methyluridine has a lifespan an order of magnitude longer than uridine due to solvent reorganization needed for bulky methyl group motion. The photophysical mechanism by which nucleosides dissipate energy after UV light irradiation remains a topic of debate.
DNA owes its remarkable photostability to its building blocks-the nucleosides-that efficiently dissipate the energy acquired upon ultraviolet light absorption. The mechanism occurring on a sub-picosecond time scale has been a matter of intense debate. Here we combine sub-30-fs transient absorption spectroscopy experiments with broad spectral coverage and state-of-the-art mixed quantum-classical dynamics with spectral signal simulations to resolve the early steps of the deactivation mechanisms of uridine (Urd) and 5-methyluridine (5mUrd) in aqueous solution. We track the wave packet motion from the Franck-Condon region to the conical intersections (CIs) with the ground state and observe spectral signatures of excited-state vibrational modes. 5mUrd exhibits an order of magnitude longer lifetime with respect to Urd due to the solvent reorganization needed to facilitate bulky methyl group motions leading to the CI. This activates potentially lesion-inducing dynamics such as ring opening. Involvement of the (1)n pi* state is found to be negligible. The photophysical mechanism by which nucleosides dissipate energy after UV light irradiation is still under debate. Here the authors, using ultrafast time resolved optical spectroscopies and quantum chemical computations, resolve the early steps of such mechanism in uridine and 5-methyluridine in aqueous solution.
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