The dynamics of adenine and thymine on carbon surfaces
We propose to measure the dynamics of the nucleobases adsorbed on exfoliated graphite, focussing on the diffusion and dynamics of adenine, thymine and the adenine-thymine (AT) dimer. Measured diffusion rates and mass transfer will help to understand the rate of bond formation and proton transfer in a system that is critical for biology and medicine, paving the way to a better understanding of hydrogen bond formation in adsorbed DNA base pairs as well as in tautomerisation rates and proton tunnelling in AT dimers. Moreover, despite a few structural studies, no experimental information regarding the diffusion of DNA bases adsorbed at carbon interfaces is available up to now, while an understanding of the interaction and dynamics of biomolecules at carbon materials is essential for designing novel biomedical and catalytic applications.
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TAMTOEGL Anton; FOUQUET Peter; HOURIGAN Noah; Marco Sacchi and Philipp Seiler. (2023). The dynamics of adenine and thymine on carbon surfaces. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) doi:10.5291/ILL-DATA.7-05-562
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