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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 119, 期 9, 页码 3755-3761出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp512414f
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- NIH [GM051501]
- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Urea, has long been used to investigate protein folding and, more recently, RNA folding. Studies,have proposed that urea,denatures RNA by participating in stacking interactions and hydrogen,bonds with nucleic acid bases. In this study, the ability of urea to form unconventional stacking interactions with RNA bases is investigated using ab initio calculations (RI-MP2 and CCSD(T) methods With the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set). A total:of 29 stable nucleobase-urea stacked complexes are identified in-Which the intermolecular interaction energies (up to 14 kcal/mol) are dominated by dispersion. effects. Natural bond orbital (NBO) and atoms in Molecules (AIM) calculations further confirm strong interactions between urea and nucleobases. Calculations on model systems with multiple urea and water molecules interacting with a guanine base lead to a hypothesis that urea molecules along with water are able to form cage-like structures capable of trapping nucleic add bases in extrahelical states by forming both: hydrogen-bonded and dispersion interactions, thereby contributing to the unfolding of RNA in the presence of urea in aqueous solution.
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