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Sara Gómez1, Piero Lafiosca1, Franco Egidi2
1Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
UV-Resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy is a valuable tool to study the binding of drugs to biomolecular receptors. The extraction of information at the molecular level from experimental RR spectra is made much easier and more complete thanks to the use of computational approaches, specifically tuned to deal with the complexity of the supramolecular system. In this paper, we propose a protocol to simulate RR spectra of complex systems at different levels of sophistication, by exploiting a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach. The approach is challenged to investigate RR spectra of a widely used chemotherapy drug, doxorubicin (DOX) intercalated into a DNA double strand. The computed results show good agreement with experimental data, thus confirming the reliability of the computational protocol.
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