{"title":"Density Functional Study of the Structure of Guanine Octets in Aqueous Medium","authors":"Mykola M. Ilchenko, I. Dubey","doi":"10.15866/IREBIC.V2I3.1516","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The structures and energies of guanine quartets and octets in water were determined by DFT (Density Functional Theory) calculations using M06-2X functional and 6-31G(d, p) basic set. Guanine quartets in vacuum were found to have not only the Hoogsteen or bifurcated, but also mixed system of hydrogen bonds; in water the latter two forms are transformed into the classic Hoogsteen-type structure. Four stable configurations of G-octets with D4, C4 and S4 symmetry formed by the pairs of guanine quartets with Hoogsteen, bifurcated or mixed system of H-bonds were identified. The most advantageous structure of the G-octet molecular system in aqueous medium was shown to be S4-symmetric structure consisting of the pair of mixed Hoogsteen-bifurcated type G-quartets","PeriodicalId":14377,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Biophysical Chemistry","volume":"78 1","pages":"82-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Review of Biophysical Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15866/IREBIC.V2I3.1516","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The structures and energies of guanine quartets and octets in water were determined by DFT (Density Functional Theory) calculations using M06-2X functional and 6-31G(d, p) basic set. Guanine quartets in vacuum were found to have not only the Hoogsteen or bifurcated, but also mixed system of hydrogen bonds; in water the latter two forms are transformed into the classic Hoogsteen-type structure. Four stable configurations of G-octets with D4, C4 and S4 symmetry formed by the pairs of guanine quartets with Hoogsteen, bifurcated or mixed system of H-bonds were identified. The most advantageous structure of the G-octet molecular system in aqueous medium was shown to be S4-symmetric structure consisting of the pair of mixed Hoogsteen-bifurcated type G-quartets