Photochemical and photodynamical properties of sulfur‐substituted nucleic acid bases

B Ashwood, M Pollum… - Photochemistry and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfur‐substituted nucleobases (aka, thiobases) are among the world's leading prescriptions
for chemotherapy and immunosuppression. Long‐term treatment with azathioprine, 6 …

[HTML][HTML] Photophysics and photochemistry of canonical nucleobases' thioanalogs: From quantum mechanical studies to time resolved experiments

S Arslancan, L Martínez-Fernández, I Corral - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Interest in understanding the photophysics and photochemistry of thiated nucleobases has
been awakened because of their possible involvement in primordial RNA or their potential …

Competing ultrafast intersystem crossing and internal conversion: a time resolved picture for the deactivation of 6-thioguanine

L Martinez-Fernandez, I Corral, G Granucci… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper we simulate the deactivation dynamics of photoexcited 6-thioguanine, a
cytotoxic analogue of the canonical DNA/RNA base guanine, using a direct surface hopping …

Excited-state dynamics in 6-thioguanosine from the femtosecond to microsecond time scale

C Reichardt, C Guo… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Patients treated with the immunosuppressant and anticancer drugs 6-thioguanine,
azathioprine, or mercaptopurine can metabolize and incorporate them in DNA as 6 …

[HTML][HTML] Vesicles, fibres, films and crystals: A low-molecular-weight-gelator [Au (6-thioguanosine) 2] Cl which exhibits a co-operative anion-induced transition from …

LF McGarry, O El-Zubir, PG Waddell, F Cucinotta… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We describe a simple coordination compound of Au (I) and 6-thioguanosine,[Au (6-tGH) 2]
Cl, that has a rich self-assembly chemistry. In aqueous solution, the discrete complex …

An ab initio mechanism for efficient population of triplet states in cytotoxic sulfur substituted DNA bases: the case of 6-thioguanine

L Martínez-Fernández, L González… - Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The deactivation mechanism of the cytotoxic 6-thioguanine, the 6-sulfur-substituted
analogue of the canonical DNA base, is unveiled by ab initio calculations. Oxygen-by-sulfur …

[HTML][HTML] Excited-state dynamics of the thiopurine prodrug 6-thioguanine: Can N9-glycosylation affect its phototoxic activity?

B Ashwood, S Jockusch, CE Crespo-Hernández - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
6-Thioguanine, an immunosuppressant and anticancer prodrug, has been shown to induce
DNA damage and cell death following exposure to UVA radiation. Its metabolite, 6 …

Thioguanine and thiouracil: hydrogen-bonding and stacking properties

J Šponer, J Leszczynski, P Hobza - The Journal of Physical …, 1997 - ACS Publications
Base stacking and H-bonding properties of thioguanine and thiouracils were studied using
an ab initio quantum chemical method with inclusion of electron correlation (second-order …

Excited state dynamics of 6-thioguanine

FM Siouri, S Boldissar, JA Berenbeim… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Here we present the excited state dynamics of jet-cooled 6-thioguanine (6-TG), using
resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI), IR–UV double resonance …

Tautomerism of thioguanine: From gas phase to DNA

MJ Stewart, J Leszczynski, YV Rubin… - The Journal of Physical …, 1997 - ACS Publications
High-level ab initio calculations were performed on five of the most stable tautomers of 6-
thioguanine (6TG) at the second-and fourth-order levels of correlated Møller− Plesset theory …