Issue 26, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Selectivity in DNA replication. Interplay of steric shape, hydrogen bonds, π-stacking and solvent effects†

Jordi Poater,ab   Marcel Swart,bc   Célia Fonseca Guerraa  and  F. Matthias Bickelhaupt*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Theoretical Chemistry and ACMM, VU University, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: FM.Bickelhaupt@few.vu.nl

b Institut de Química Computacional and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, 17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain

c ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Our dispersion-corrected DFT computations reveal key factors behind the intrinsic affinity of a DNA template–primer complex to select the correct nucleotide.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC04707D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Oct 2010
Accepted
10 May 2011
First published
25 May 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 7326-7328

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Selectivity in DNA replication. Interplay of steric shape, hydrogen bonds, π-stacking and solvent effects

J. Poater, M. Swart, C. F. Guerra and F. M. Bickelhaupt, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 7326 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04707D

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