UV–vis Photodissociation Action Spectroscopy Reveals Cytosine–Guanine Hydrogen Transfer in DNA Tetranucleotide Cation Radicals upon One-Electron Reduction
- 9 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 124 (17), 3505-3517
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01693
Abstract
We report the generation and spectroscopic study of hydrogen-rich DNA tetranucleotide cation radicals (GATC+2H)+● and (AGTC+2H)+●. The radicals were generated in the gas phase by one-electron reduction of the respective dications (GATC+2H)2+ and (AGTC+2H)2+, and characterized by collision-induced dissociation and photodissociation tandem mass spectrometry, and UV-Vis photodissociation action spectroscopy. Among several absorption bands observed for (GATC+2H)+●, the bands at 340 and 450 nm were assigned to radical chromophores. Time-dependent density functional theory calculations including vibronic transitions in the visible region of the spectrum were used to provide theoretical absorption spectra of several low-energy tetranucleotide tautomers having cytosine, adenine, and thymine-based radical chromophores that did not match the experimental spectrum. Instead, the calculations indicated the formation of a new isomer with the 7,8-H-dihydroguanine cation-radical moiety. The isomerization involved hydrogen migration from the cytosine N-3-H radical to the C-8 position in N-7-protonated guanine that was calculated to be 87 kJ mol-1 exothermic and had a low-energy transition state. Although the hydrogen migration was facilitated by the spatial proximity of the guanine and cytosine bases in the low-energy (GATC+2H)+● intermediate formed by electron transfer, the reaction was calculated to have a large negative activation entropy. Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) and transition state theory kinetic analysis indicated that the isomerization occurred rapidly in hot cation-radicals produced by electron transfer with the population-weighed rate constant of k = 8.9 103 s-1. The isomerization was calculated to be too slow to proceed on the experimental time scale in thermal cation-radicals at 310 K.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (CHE-1624430, CHE-1661815)
- Klaus and Mary Ann Saegebarth Endowment
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