Comment on "Computational Model for Predicting Experimental RNA and DNA Nearest-Neighbor Free Energy Rankings"

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Authors

ŠPONER Jiří MORGADO Claudio A SVOZIL Daniel

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Physical Chemistry B
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Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp300659f?mi=0&af=R&pr...
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp300659f
Field Biophysics
Keywords ACID BASE-PAIRS; STACKING ENERGIES; STABILITY; PARAMETERS; STEPS
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Description Recently, Johnson et al.1 reported interesting quantumchemical computations on base stacking and base pairing energies in B-DNA and A-RNA. They deduced that “there most definitely is a quantitative correlation between the quantum mechanical gas-phase stacking data and nucleic acid stability”. Such conclusion is, in our opinion, too optimistic and oversimplified. We identified several issues questioning the validity of this statement.
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