Low-frequency Raman scattering study of six nucleosides |
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Authors: | C.A. Koontz |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics &2. Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 43606, USA. |
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Abstract: | Raman spectroscopy was used to study the low-frequency (?200?cm?1) vibrations in crystalline samples of six naturally occurring nucleosides: deoxythymidine (dT), deoxycytidine (dC), deoxyadenosine (dA), uridine (rU), cytidine (rC), and adenosine (rA). Such low-frequency vibrations are important for biological processes in which the conformation of a nucleic acid molecule changes. These experiments also provide a test for the low-frequency vibrational modes of dT, dC, and dA predicted by Shishkin et al. |
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Keywords: | Raman scattering nucleosides low-frequency vibrations |
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