Impact of RNA Melting on Hydrating Water Structure Mapped by Femtosecond 2D-IR Spectroscopy

Authors :: Fingerhut, Benjamin P.
Kundu, Achintya
Schauss, Jakob
Elsaesser, Thomas
Source :: The 22nd International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2020, F. K\"artner, M. Khalil, R. Li, F. L\'egar\'e, and T. Tahara, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper M2A.1
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: We discern hydration geometries around the sugar-phosphate-backbone of an RNA double helix at the molecular level. RNA disordering upon melting is connected with a transition from ordered water structures towards local phosphate group hydration shells.

Subjects :: Physics - Chemical Physics
Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter

Database :: arXiv
Journal :: The 22nd International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2020, F. K\"artner, M. Khalil, R. Li, F. L\'egar\'e, and T. Tahara, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper M2A.1
Publication Type :: Report
Accession number :: edsarx.2109.00500
Document Type :: Working Paper
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1364/UP.2020.M2A.1

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