How Do Charges Travel through DNA?-An Update on a Current Debate.
The effects of oligonucleotide sequence, base pairing, stacking, and duplex microstructure as well as donor-acceptor distance, labeling site, and driving force on charge-transfer reactions in DNA are of interest, yet relatively few experiments have been performed to address many of these issues. This article summarizes recent results on DNA-mediated charge transfer and highlights experimental and theoretical issues that are still unanswered or unresolved.
Grinstaff
MW
Department of Chemistry, Paul M. Gross Chemical Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 (USA).