Excited State Dynamics of 6-Thioguanine
Abstract

Here we present the excited state dynamics of jet-cooled 6-thioguanine (6-TG), using resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI), IR–UV double resonance spectroscopy, and pump–probe spectroscopy in the nanosecond and picosecond time domains. We report data on two thiol tautomers, which appear to have different excited state dynamics. These decay to a dark state, possibly a triplet state, with rates depending on tautomer form and on excitation wavelength, with the fastest rate on the order of 1010 s–1. We also compare 6-TG with 9-enolguanine, for which we observed decay to a dark state with a 2 orders of magnitude smaller rate. At increased excitation energy (∼+500 cm–1) an additional pathway appears for the predominant thiol tautomer. Moreover, the excited state dynamics for 6-TG thiols is different from that recently predicted for thiones.
Cited By
This article is cited by 20 publications.
- Hiroyuki Saigusa, Ayumi Oyama, Saki Kitamura, Hiroya Asami. Structural Characterization of 6-Thioguanosine and Its Monohydrate in the Gas Phase. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2021, 125 (33) , 7217-7225. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05219
- Ye-Guang Fang, Qin Peng, Qiu Fang, Weihai Fang, Ganglong Cui. MS-CASPT2 Studies on the Photophysics of Selenium-Substituted Guanine Nucleobase. ACS Omega 2019, 4 (6) , 9769-9777. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01276
- Shoma Miyata, Mina Hoshino, Tasuku Isozaki, Takeshi Yamada, Hideyuki Sugimura, Yao-Zhong Xu, Tadashi Suzuki. Acid Dissociation Equilibrium and Singlet Molecular Oxygen Quantum Yield of Acetylated 6,8-Dithioguanosine in Aqueous Buffer Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2018, 122 (11) , 2912-2921. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00517
- Jacob A. Berenbeim, Samuel Boldissar, Faady M. Siouri, Gregory Gate, Michael R. Haggmark, Briana Aboulache, Trevor Cohen, and Mattanjah S. de Vries . Excited-State Dynamics of Isocytosine: A Hybrid Case of Canonical Nucleobase Photodynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2017, 8 (20) , 5184-5189. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02032
- Brennan Ashwood, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández . Excited-State Dynamics in O6-Methylguanosine: Impact of O6-Methylation on the Relaxation Mechanism of Guanine Monomers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2017, 8 (18) , 4380-4385. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02090
- Kirtesh Pratap Khare, Rachana Kathal, Neelima Shukla, Reena Srivastava, Anurag Srivastava. Quantum Molecular Descriptors of 6-Thioguanine Adsorbed PPy-PNVK Conducting Polymer: A DFT Analysis. Asian Journal of Chemistry 2023, 35 (3) , 555-562. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2023.26920
- Osama El-Zubir, Pablo Rojas Martinez, Gema Dura, Lamia L.G. Al-Mahamad, Thomas Pope, Thomas J. Penfold, Lewis E. Mackenzie, Robert Pal, Jackie Mosely, Fabio Cucinotta, Liam F. McGarry, Benjamin R. Horrocks, Andrew Houlton. Circularly polarised luminescence in an RNA-based homochiral, self-repairing, coordination polymer hydrogel. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2022, 10 (18) , 7329-7335. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TC00366J
- Danielle C. Teles-Ferreira, Cristian Manzoni, Lara Martínez-Fernández, Giulio Cerullo, Ana Maria de Paula, Rocío Borrego-Varillas. Ultrafast Excited-State Decay Mechanisms of 6-Thioguanine Followed by Sub-20 fs UV Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. Molecules 2022, 27 (4) , 1200. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27041200
- Danillo Valverde, Adalberto de Araújo, Antonio Borin. Photophysical Deactivation Mechanisms of the Pyrimidine Analogue 1-Cyclohexyluracil. Molecules 2021, 26 (17) , 5191. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26175191
- Qin Peng, Yun-Hua Zhu, Teng-Shuo Zhang, Xiang-Yang Liu, Wei-Hai Fang, Ganglong Cui. Selenium substitution effects on excited-state properties and photophysics of uracil: a MS-CASPT2 study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2020, 22 (21) , 12120-12128. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CP01369B
- J.A. Berenbeim, S. Boldissar, S. Owens, M.R. Haggmark, G. Gate, F.M. Siouri, T. Cohen, M. F. Rode, C. Schmidt Patterson, M.S. de Vries. Excited state intramolecular proton transfer in hydroxyanthraquinones: Toward predicting fading of organic red colorants in art. Science Advances 2019, 5 (9) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw5227
- Gregory Gate, Rafał Szabla, Michael R. Haggmark, Jiří Šponer, Andrzej L. Sobolewski, Mattanjah S. de Vries. Photodynamics of alternative DNA base isoguanine. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2019, 21 (25) , 13474-13485. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CP01622H
- Brennan Ashwood, Marvin Pollum, Carlos E. Crespo‐Hernández. Photochemical and Photodynamical Properties of Sulfur‐Substituted Nucleic Acid Bases,. Photochemistry and Photobiology 2019, 95 (1) , 33-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/php.12975
- Michael R. Haggmark, Gregory Gate, Samuel Boldissar, Jacob Berenbeim, Andrzej L. Sobolewski, Mattanjah S. de Vries. Evidence for competing proton-transfer and hydrogen-transfer reactions in the S1 state of indigo. Chemical Physics 2018, 515 , 535-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.09.027
- Sebastian Mai, Philipp Marquetand, Leticia González. Nonadiabatic dynamics: The SHARC approach. WIREs Computational Molecular Science 2018, 8 (6) https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1370
- Shoma Miyata, Shunsuke Tanabe, Tasuku Isozaki, Yao-Zhong Xu, Tadashi Suzuki. Characteristics of the excited triplet states of thiolated guanosine derivatives and singlet oxygen generation. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2018, 17 (10) , 1469-1476. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8PP00240A
- Shoma Miyata, Shunsuke Tanabe, Tasuku Isozaki, Yao-Zhong Xu, Tadashi Suzuki. Characteristics of the excited triplet states of thiolated guanosine derivatives and singlet oxygen generation. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2018, 17 (10) , 1469-1476. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8pp00240a
- Sebastian Mai, Felix Plasser, Philipp Marquetand, Leticia González. General Trajectory Surface Hopping Method for Ultrafast Nonadiabatic Dynamics. 2018, 348-385. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788012669-00348
- Brennan Ashwood, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández. Photochemical relaxation pathways of S 6 -methylthioinosine and O 6 -methylguanosine in solution. Faraday Discussions 2018, 207 , 351-374. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7FD00193B
- Samuel Boldissar, Mattanjah S. de Vries. How nature covers its bases. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2018, 20 (15) , 9701-9716. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CP01236A