Why are DNA and protein electron transfer so different?

DN Beratan - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The corpus of electron transfer (ET) theory provides considerable power to describe the
kinetics and dynamics of electron flow at the nanoscale. How is it, then, that nucleic acid …

The role of proton transfer on mutations

R Srivastava - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Hydrogen bonds play a critical role in nucleobase studies as they encode genes, map
protein structures, provide stability to the base pairs, and are involved in spontaneous and …

Tacoxdna: A user‐friendly web server for simulations of complex DNA structures, from single strands to origami

A Suma, E Poppleton, M Matthies… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Simulations of nucleic acids at different levels of structural details are increasingly used to
complement and interpret experiments in different fields, from biophysics to medicine and …

Computational study of the role of counterions and solvent dielectric in determining the conductance of B-DNA

Y Wang, B Demir, H Mohammad, EE Oren… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
DNA naturally exists in a solvent environment, comprising water and salt molecules such as
sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc. Along with the sequence, the solvent conditions …

Charge splitters and charge transport junctions based on guanine quadruplexes

R Sha, L Xiang, C Liu, A Balaeff, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Self-assembling circuit elements, such as current splitters or combiners at the molecular
scale, require the design of building blocks with three or more terminals. A promising …

Efficient charge transport via DNA G-quadruplexes

AK Thazhathveetil, MA Harris, RM Young… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The dynamics and efficiency of photoinduced charge transport has been investigated in
DNA capped hairpins possessing a stilbenedicarboxamide (Sa) hole donor and …

Role of intercalation in the electrical properties of nucleic acids for use in molecular electronics

H Mohammad, B Demir, C Akin, B Luan, J Hihath… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Intercalating ds-DNA/RNA with small molecules can play an essential role in controlling the
electron transmission probability for molecular electronics applications such as biosensors …

Topology controls the electronic absorption and delocalization of electron holes in guanine quadruplexes

L Martínez‐Fernández, A Banyasz… - … A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Guanine quadruplexes (G4) are four‐stranded DNA structures involved in biological
processes and are promising candidates for potential nanotechnological applications. This …

DNA charge transport: Moving beyond 1D

Y Zhang, WB Zhang, C Liu, P Zhang, A Balaeff… - Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Charge transport across novel DNA junctions has been studied for several decades. From
early attempts to move charge across DNA double crossover junctions to recent studies on …

Revisiting the hole size in double helical DNA with localized orbital scaling corrections

Y Jin, X Ru, NQ Su, Y Mei, DN Beratan… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The extent of electronic wave function delocalization for the charge carrier (electron or hole)
in double helical DNA plays an important role in determining the DNA charge transfer …