Photocycloaddition, Thymine, Azetidine, Cyclobutane Adducts Photochemical reactions of thymine linked to hypoxanthine or imidazole by a trimethylene chain were studied in aqueous solution. Irradiation (A = 254 nm) of thymine-hypoxanthine pair yielded two internal cycloadducts with azetidine and cyclobutane part structures. Sensitization and quenching experiments suggested that the excited singl...

A novel fluorescent nanosensor has been developed for detecting biothiols including cysteine and glutathione using graphene oxide based hairpin DNA-selective fluorescence quenching and thymine-Hg(II)-thymine coordination-controlled hybridization chain reaction, which provides a simple but the most sensitive platform for biothiol assays.

this paper presents density functional theory and non-equilibrium green’s function based first principles calculations to explore the sensing property of adenine and thymine based hetero-junction chins for ammonia and phosphine gas molecules. this modeling and simulation technique plays an important and crucial role in the fast growing semiconductor based nanotechnology field. the hetero-juncti...

Evidence is summarized showing that thymine methyls are as important in the recognition of specific sequences by proteins as are the more widely recognized hydrogen bonding sites of bases in the major groove (1). Strongest evidence has come from experiments using functional group mutagenesis (2) in which thymines in a specific recognition sequence (e.g., promoters, operators and restriction sit...

this study is about complexes of li doped silicon carbide nanotube with thymine and cytosine ingas phase and aqueous solutions. li doped silicon carbide nanotube and its pyrimidine nucleobasecompounds were first modeled by quantum mechanical calculations in gas phase and in water.calculated binding energies indicated the stronger ability of thymine to functionalize silicon carbidenanotube than ...

The distribution of pyrimidine oligodeoxynucleotide clusters in L and H strands of Bacillus subtilis DNA separated by methylated albumin-Kieselguhr has been determined. Preparations of native and single-stranded DNA were degraded with diphenylamine in formic acid, and the released isostichs with the general formula of Py(n)P(n+1) were separated on DEAE-cellulose by chain length. Eleven isostich...

Sickle cell disease is one of the most common hemoglobinopathy worldwide. It an autosomal recessive genetic disorder caused by replacement adenine to thymine nucleotide in beta chain hemoglobin results valine for glutamic acid at 6th position. This substitution formation sickle (HbS) which turn leads a reduced lifespan red blood cells (RBC). In hypoxic conditions, HbS has tendency aggregate and...

We have designed a 21-residue α-peptide that simultaneously recognizes two decadeoxyoligothymidine (dT(10)) tracts to form triplexes with a peptide-DNA strand ratio of 1:2. The synthetic peptide side chain displays 10 melamine rings, which provide a bifacial thymine-recognition interface along the length of the 21-residue peptide. Recognition is selective for thymine over other nucleobases and ...

Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are mimics with normal bases connected to a pseudopeptide chain that obey Watson-Crick rules to form stable duplexes with itself and natural nucleic acids. This has focused attention on PNA as therapeutic or diagnostic reagents. Duplexes formed with PNA mirror some but not all properties of DNA. One fascinating aspect of PNA biochemistry is their reaction with enzyme...