Long-range charge hopping in DNA

• M. Bixon

  School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany

• Bernd Giese

  School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany

• Stephan Wessely

  School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany

• Thomas Langenbacher

  School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany

• Maria E. Michel-Beyerle

  School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany

• Joshua Jortner

  School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany

抄録

The fundamental mechanisms of charge migration in DNA are pertinent for current developments in molecular electronics and electrochemistry-based chip technology. The energetic control of hole (positive ion) multistep hopping transport in DNA proceeds via the guanine, the nucleobase with the lowest oxidation potential. Chemical yield data for the relative reactivity of the guanine cations and of charge trapping by a triple guanine unit in one of the strands quantify the hopping, trapping, and chemical kinetic parameters. The hole-hopping rate for superexchange-mediated interactions via two intervening AT base pairs is estimated to be 10 9 s −1 at 300 K. We infer that the maximal distance for hole hopping in the duplex with the guanine separated by a single AT base pair is 300 ± 70 Å. Although we encounter constraints for hole transport in DNA emerging from the number of the mediating AT base pairs, electron transport is expected to be nearly sequence independent because of the similarity of the reduction potentials of the thymine and of the cytosine.

収録刊行物

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (21), 11713-11716, 1999-10-12

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

キーワード

• Multidisciplinary

詳細情報

• CRID: 1361981468653860352
• NII論文ID: 30016226084
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.21.11713
• ISSN: 10916490
• ISSN: 00278424
• Web Site: https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.96.21.11713
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