A Doorway mechanism for Electron Attachment Induced DNA Strand Break
| Autor: | J, Jishnu Narayanan S, Tripathi, Divya, Dutta, Achintya Kumar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We report a new doorway mechanism for the dissociative electron attachment to genetic materials. The dipole-bound state of the nucleotide anion acts as the doorway for electron capture in the genetic material. The electron gets subsequently transferred to a dissociative {\sigma}* type anionic state localized on a sugar-phosphate or a sugar-nucleobase bond, leading to their cleavage. The electron transfer is mediated by the mixing of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom. The cleavage rate of the sugar-phosphate bond predicted by this new mechanism is higher than that of the sugar-nucleobase bond breaking, and both processes are considerably slower than the formation of a stable valence-bound anion. The new mechanism explains the relative rates of electron attachment induced bond cleavages in genetic materials. Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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