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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 79, Issue 6, Pages 2419-2429Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo402700y
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CTQ2007-68014-C02-02, CTQ2009-13705, CTQ2010-20541-C03-01, CTQ2012-35360]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009/SGR/208]
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CIBER-BNN) [CB06_01_0019]
- Ministerio de Educacion
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Carbohydrate-aromatic interactions are highly relevant for many biological processes. Nevertheless, experimental data in aqueous solution relating structure and energetics for sugar-arene stacking interactions are very scarce. Here, we evaluate how structural variations in a monosaccharide including carboxyl, N-acetyl, fluorine, and methyl groups affect stacking interactions with aromatic DNA bases. We find small differences on stacking interaction among the natural carbohydrates examined. The presence of fluorine atoms within the pyranose ring slightly increases the interaction with the C-G DNA base pair. Carbohydrate hydrophobicity is the most determinant factor. However, gradual increase in hydrophobicity of the carbohydrate does not translate directly into a steady growth in stacking interaction. The energetics correlates better with the amount of apolar surface buried upon sugar stacking on top of the aromatic DNA base pair.
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