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B-DNA Structure and Stability as Function of Nucleic Acid Composition. Dispersion-Corrected DFT Study of Dinucleoside-Monophosphate Single and Double…

2013

actions of the sugar-phosphate skeleton with water; (6) hydrophobic interactions of the DNA cylindrical core, made up by the hydrogen-bonded and stacked nitrogen bases, with the water solvent. Recently, there has been increasing effort in developing and applying quantum chemical methods able to reproduce the structure of native B-DNA and to correctly describe the energy involved in the intrastrand and interstrand noncovalent interactions between the nucleotide monomers. This topic has been approached by both wave function methods and density functional theory. [2] Water solvent and sodium counterions also play an important role in the formation and relative stabilization of the double-helic…