title: Low-frequency Raman scattering study of six nucleosides.
abstract: Raman spectroscopy was used to study the low-frequency (⩽200 cm(-1)) vibrations in crystalline samples of six naturally occurring nucleosides: deoxythymidine (dT), deoxycytidine (dC), deoxyadenosine (dA), uridine (rU), cytidine (rC), and adenosine (rA). Such low-frequency vibrations are important for biological processes in which the conformation of a nucleic acid molecule changes. These experiments also provide a test for the low-frequency vibrational modes of dT, dC, and dA predicted by Shishkin et al.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Physics & Astronomy , University of Toledo , Toledo , OH , 43606 , USA .
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Koontz
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D009705:Nucleosides
keywords: Raman scattering; low-frequency vibrations; nucleosides