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.