Reference Quantum Chemical Calculations on RNA Base Pairs Directly Involving the 2OH Group of Ribose

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Authors	ŠPONER Jiří ZGARBOVÁ Marie JUREČKA Petr RILEY Kevin ŠPONER Judit HOBZA Pavel
Year of publication	2009
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Biophysics
Keywords	quantum chemistry; RNA; ribose
Description	We report reference quantum chemical calculations of base pairing energies for a representative selection of 25 RNA base pairs utilizing the ribose moiety for base pairing, including structures with amino akceptor interactions. These calculations confirm that, compared to canonical base pairs, many RNA base pairs exhibit a modestly increased role of dispersion attraction compared to canonical base pairs.
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