Molecular Structure and Dynamics of DNA/RNA Helices
A special issue of DNA (ISSN 2673-8856).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2026 | Viewed by 1322
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecular structure of DNA-RNA microhelices; molecular structure of nucleosides and nucleobases; DFT applications to different systems; infrared and Raman vibrational wavenumbers; scaling the wavenumbers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nucleic acids are the most important macromolecules for the continuity of life, among which DNA and RNA chains are well known. Knowledge concerning the molecular structure of these DNA/RNA helices, simplified michrohelices, or WC pairs of nucleosides or nucleobases is of great importance. Therefore, unpublished theoretical or experimental manuscripts that report on any aspect of the physical, chemical, and biochemical aspectrs of nucleic acids bases, nucleosides, nucleotides, DNA and RNA helices, and the interactions involved with them are welcome for this Special Issue. In addition, computationsl studies that deal with structure prediction, DFT calculations, molecular dynamics, or spectroscopy are accepted.Topics in this Special Issue may also include the following:
- Effects of the different nucleosides in a strand on the helical parameters of the helix;
- Influence of the different chemotherapeutic drugs on the DNA/RNA helix structure;
- Effect of the mutations on the DNA/RNA replication and its mechanism.
Dr. Mauricio Alcolea Palafox
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- DNA/RNA structure
- structure predictions
- molecular simulations
- molecular dynamics
- microhelices
- nucleosides structure
- biomolecular interactions
- DFT calculationsdeter
- spectroscopic predictions
- X-ray determination
- drug effects on DNA/RNA
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