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Hydration of uracil and thymine methylderivatives: a Monte Carlo simulation
1Department of Quantum Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev.
Abstract:
The simulation performed shows that under methylation of uracil and thymine NH-groups the interaction energy between a base and water (Uwb) is increased. It is also detected that the increase in this energy was observed in the 1st and the 3rd sectors. These conclusions do not confirm the assumption made in the literature on the character of an interaction between methylated bases and water. According to this assumption, when the NH-groups are methylated, the energy of Uwb in these sectors decreases as a result of the van der Waals interactions between a methyl group and water, whose energy compensates the increase in the Uwb energy due to the breaking of an H-bond. Regularity of water molecules near a hydrophobic group under the hydration of polar molecules is detected for the first time.
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