First principles effective electronic couplings for hole transfer in natural and size-expanded DNA.
First principles effective electronic couplings for hole transfer in natural and size-expanded DNA.
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第一原理在天然和大小扩展的DNA中用于孔转移的有效电子耦合。
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10.1021/jp904295q
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2009-07-16
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Di Felice R
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Migliore A;Corni S;Varsano D;Klein ML;Di Felice R
Hole transfer processes between base pairs in natural DNA and size-expanded DNA (xDNA) are studied and compared, by means of an accurate first principles evaluation of the effective electronic couplings (also known as transfer integrals), in order to assess the effect of the base augmentation on the efficiency of charge transport through double-stranded DNA. According to our results, the size expansion increases the average electronic coupling, and thus the CT rate, with potential implications in molecular biology and in the implementation of molecular nanoelectronics. Our analysis shows that the effect of the nucleobase expansion on the charge-transfer (CT) rate is sensitive to the sequence of base pairs. Furthermore, we find that conformational variability is an important factor for the modulation of the CT rate. From a theoretical point of view, this work offers a contribution to the CT chemistry in π-stacked arrays. Indeed, we compare our methodology against other standard computational frameworks that have been adopted to tackle the problem of CT in DNA, and unravel basic principles that should be accounted for in selecting an appropriate theoretical level.
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