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THE RELATIVE STABILITY OF PROTONATED BASE PAIRS BETWEEN XANTHINE AND DNA BASES

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Base pairs involving protonated nucleobases play important roles in the DNA republication. Xanthine is an oxidative product of guanine. In this work, we employ density functional theory to investigate the protonation properties of xanthine (X), adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). With regard to the proton affinity, we study the protonated base pairs between X and A, C, G, T. The quantum theory of atoms in molecule and the natural bond orbital analysis are employed to elucidate the interaction characteristics. The interaction energy and structural parameters show the relative stability of the protonated base pairs: X:AH+ > X:CH+ > X:GH+ > XH+:T. The occurrence of X(syn):AH+(anti) structure may lead to a G:C → T:A transition.

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This work was supported by the grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21520102007), the Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Instrumentation Open Found (JXMS202023), and the Doctor Foundation of the East China University of Technology (DHBK2019269).

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Qiu, Z.M., Zhang, X.P. THE RELATIVE STABILITY OF PROTONATED BASE PAIRS BETWEEN XANTHINE AND DNA BASES. J Struct Chem 62, 29–36 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022476621010042

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