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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 112, Issue 51, Pages 16935-16944Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp8076134
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- NIH [RR12255]
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The electron transfer properties of DNA radical cations are important in DNA damage and repair processes. Fast long-range charge transfer has been demonstrated experimentally, but the subtle influences that experimental conditions as well as DNA sequences and geometries have on the details of electron transfer parameters are still poorly understood. In this work, we employ an atomistic QM/MM approach, based on a one-electron tight binding Hamiltonian and a classical molecular mechanics forcefield, to conduct nanosecond length MD simulations of electron holes in DNA oligomers. Multiple spontaneous electron transfer events were observed in 100 ns simulations with neighboring adenine or guanine bases. Marcus parameters of charge transfer could be extracted directly from the simulations. The reorganization 'energy A for hopping between neighboring bases was found to be ca. 25 kcal/mol and charge transfer rates of 4.1 x 10(9) s(-1) for AA hopping and 1.3 x 10(9) s(-1) for GG hopping were obtained.
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