| Literature DB >> 15323664 |
Frédéric Martin1, Paul D Burrow, Zhongli Cai, Pierre Cloutier, Darel Hunting, Léon Sanche.
Abstract
Collisions of 0-4 eV electrons with thin DNA films are shown to produce single strand breaks. The yield is sharply structured as a function of electron energy and indicates the involvement of pi* shape resonances in the bond breaking process. The cross sections are comparable in magnitude to those observed in other compounds in the gas phase in which pi* electrons are transferred through the molecule to break a remote bond. The results therefore support aspects of a theoretical study by Barrios et al. [J. Phys. B 106, 7991 (2002)]] indicating that such a mechanism could produce strand breaks in DNA.Mesh:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15323664 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.068101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161