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By combing the time-dependent density functional calculations for electrons with molecular dynamics simulations for ions (TDDFT-MD) nonadiabatically in real time, we investigate the microscopic mechanism of collisions between cytosine and low-energy protons with incident energy ranging from 150 eV to 1000 eV. To explore the effects of the collision site and the proton incident energy on irradiation processes of cytosine, two collision sites are specially considered, which are N and O both acting as the proton receptors when forming hydrogen bonds with guanine. Not only the energy loss and the scattering angle of the projectile but also the electronic and ionic degrees of freedom of the target are identified. It is found that the energy loss of proton increases linearly with the increase of the incident energy in both situations, which are 14.2% and 21.1% of the incident energy respectively. However, the scattering angles show different behaviors in these two situations when the incident kinetic energy increases. When proton collides with O, the scattering angle of proton is larger and the energy lost is more, while proton captures less electrons from O. The calculated fragment mass distribution shows the high counts of the fragment mass of 1, implying the production of H+ fragment ion from cytosine even for proton with the incident energy lower than keV. Furthermore, the calculated results show that N on cytosine is easier to be combined with low-energy protons to form NH bonds than O. 相似文献
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Balasubramanian Sridhar Jagadeesh Babu Nanubolu Krishnan Ravikumar 《Acta Crystallographica. Section C, Structural Chemistry》2015,71(2):128-135
A new polymorph of cytosine, C4H5N3O, is reported half a century after the report of its first known crystal structure [Barker & Marsh (1964). Acta Cryst. 17 , 1581–1587]. Cytosine thus provides the first polymorphic example in the category of parent nucleobases. The new form, denoted (Ib), was observed unexpectedly during an attempt to cocrystallize cytosine with catechol. Form (Ib) crystallizes in the orthorhombic centrosymmetric space group Pccn with two molecules in the asymmetric unit. The previously known form, denoted (Ia), crystallizes in the orthorhombic noncentrosymmetric space group P212121. The cytosine molecule is planar in both forms. Hydrogen‐bonding interactions are also similar for both forms. Infinite one‐dimensional ribbons composed of cytosine base‐pair dimers in R22(8) arrangements are observed in both (Ia) and (Ib). However, the way that the ribbons are packed differs in (Ia) and (Ib). This appears to guide the centrosymmetric versus noncentrosymmetric space‐group selection through the formation of an inversion‐related motif in polymorph (Ib) and a helical propagation in polymorph (Ia). A few selected polymorphic systems have been gathered from the Cambridge Structural Database to understand possible structural features responsible for achiral molecules adopting centro‐ and noncentrosymmetric space groups. 相似文献
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Structural studies on Ba(II) adducts of the cytosine nucleobase and its derivative 1-Methylcytosine*
AbstractThe use of the cytosine nucleobase or its 1-Methylcytosine derivative as ligands toward barium(II) cations led to the formation of three compounds, {[Ba(1-Mecyt)(H2O)X2]}n [X=Cl (1), Br (2)], and {[Ba(cyt)2(H2O)(ClO4)2]}n (3). Depending on the ligand and the counterion employed, 1–3 exhibit different architectures, which serve as a playground to study how the methyl substitution, together with the nature of the counterion are both significant in the self-assembling process of such species. The effect of the nature and size of the alkaline-earth metal ion on the final structural motif is also evident when comparing these structures with parent complexes of the Ca(II) ion. 相似文献
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Lingxia Jin Shengnan Shi Yang Zhao Liyang Luo Caibin Zhao Jiufu Lu 《Molecular physics》2018,116(4):471-481
The direct tautomerism (path A) and H2O2 as a catalyst (path B) have been studied in conversion of Cyt2t+ into CytN3+ isomer. The protonated 5-carboxycytosine (5-caCyt) is represented and has been further explored in the presence of H2O2 (path C). In going from a four-membered-ring transition state in the case of the direct tautomerism to the six-membered ring for H2O2, the H2O2 significantly contributes to decreasing the free energy barrier of tautomerisation. Although the carboxylic substituent of 5-carboxycytosine has certain affected on the electron distribution of the pyrimidine ring, the six-membered-ring transition state has not changed. This result illustrates that the C5-carboxylation has no significant effect on the H2O2-mediated isomerisation of Cyt2t+ to CytN3+ isomer. Meanwhile, these paths A–C have been further explored in the presence of two water molecules. Use of implicit solvent models (PCM) does not significantly alter the energetics of water-mediated paths A–C compared to those in gas phase. Furthermore, the rate constant with Wigner tunnelling correction of path A is obviously smaller than those of paths B and C. Finally, the lifetime τ99.9% of paths B and C is 10?5 s, which is implemented by the mechanism of the concerted synchronous double proton transfer. 相似文献
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Cytosine methylation is one of the most important RNA epigenetic modifications. With the development of experimental technology, scientists attach more importance to RNA cytosine methylation and find bisulfite sequencing is an effective experimental method for RNA cytosine methylation study. However, there are only a few tools can directly deal with RNA bisulfite sequencing data efficiently. Herein, we developed a specialized tool BS-RNA, which can analyze cytosine methylation of RNA based on bisulfite sequencing data and support both paired-end and single-end sequencing reads from directional bisulfite libraries. For paired-end reads, simply removing the biased positions from the 5′ end may result in “dovetailing” reads, where one or both reads seem to extend past the start of the mate read. BS-RNA could map “dovetailing” reads successfully. The annotation result of BS-RNA is exported in BED (.bed) format, including locations, sequence context types (CG/CHG/CHH, H = A, T, or C), reference sequencing depths, cytosine sequencing depths, and methylation levels of covered cytosine sites on both Watson and Crick strands. BS-RNA is an efficient, specialized and highly automated mapping and annotation tool for RNA bisulfite sequencing data. It performs better than the existing program in terms of accuracy and efficiency. BS-RNA is developed by Perl language and the source code of this tool is freely available from the website: http://bs-rna.big.ac.cn. 相似文献
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Formation and dissociation of protonated cytosine–cytosine base pairs in i-motifs by ab initio quantum chemical calculations 下载免费PDF全文
Formation and dissociation mechanisms of C-C+ base pairs in acidic and alkaline environments are investigated, employing ab initio quantum chemical calculations. Our calculations suggest that, in an acidic environment, a cytosine monomer is first protonated and then dimerized with an unprotonated cytosine monomer to form a C-C+ base pair; in an alkaline environment, a protonated cytosine dimer is first unprotonated and then dissociated into two cytosine monomers. In addition, the force for detaching a C-C+ base pair was found to be inversely proportional to the distance between the two cytosine monomers. These results provide a microscopic mechanism to qualitatively explain the experimentally observed reversible formation and dissociation of i-motifs. 相似文献
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采用密度泛函理论的B3LYP方法,在6-31+G*基组水平上研究了儿茶素-胞嘧啶分子间相互作用机制,得到稳定的儿茶素-胞嘧啶复合物11个.计算结果表明氢键对于复合物的稳定性起着重要的作用,并且当复合物形成2个或更多的氢键时,氢键的类型及强度共同决定着复合物的稳定性.我们还应用了分子中的原子(AIM)理论和自然键轨道(NBO)理论对这11种复合物中氢键的性质和特征进行了分析.通过研究发现,所有的氢键复合物进行基组重叠误差(BSSE)校正后的相互作用能为-17.35~-43.27kJ/mol,相互作用能主要由氢键所贡献.振动分析显示,氢键的形成使相对应键的对称伸缩振动频率减小,说明这些复合物中形成的氢键都是正常的红移型氢键,与实验结果相一致. 相似文献
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A. Zielenkiewicz K. Busserolles G. Roux-Desgranges A. H. Roux J-P. E. Grolier W. Zielenkiewicz 《Journal of solution chemistry》1995,24(7):623-632
Densities and specific heat capacities of ternary aqueous systems containing dipeptides (glycyl-glycine or L--alanyl-L--alanine) and nucleic acid bases (cytosine or thymine) or their alkyl derivatives (1,3-diethylthymine or caffeine) were determined at 25°C by flow calorimetry and flow densimetry. The partial molar volumes and heat capacities of transfer at infinite dilution of the different nucleic acid bases from water to water+dipeptide solutions were obtained therefrom. Except for the case of the transfer of cytosine to aqueous glycyl-glycine solutions where a small positive dependence of the transfer quantities was observed with the dipeptide concentration, the values of the heat capacities of transfer were in general low, positive or negative, depending on the compensation of hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions between the dipeptide and the base. The volumes of transfer of most of the bases are very small, within the limit of the experimental error. 相似文献
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By using calculations rooted in the time dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) we have investigated how the lowest energy excited states of a face-to-face pi-stacked cytosine dimer vary with the intermonomer distance (R). The perfomances of different density functionals have been compared, focussing mainly on the lowest energy single excited state of the dimer (S(1))(2). TD-PBE0, TD-LC-omegaPBE, and TD-M05-2X provide a picture very similar to that obtained at the CASPT2 level by Merchan et al. (J Chem Phys 2006, 125, 231102), predicting that (S(1))(2) has a minimum for R approximately 3 A, with a binding energy of approximately 0.5 eV, whereas TD-B3LYP, TD-CAM-B3LYP, and TD-PBE understimate the binding energy. However, independently of the functional employed, no low-energy spurious charge transfer transitions are predicted by TD-DFT calculations, also when a nonsymmetric dimer is investigated, providing encouraging indications for the use of TD-DFT for studying the excited state of pi-stacked nucleobases. 相似文献