Abstract
We study the mechanism of double proton transfer (DPT) in the adenine–uracil (AU) base pair, both in gas phase and under the influence of surrounding water molecules. According to our ab initio calculations, no stable proton transfer product exists in gas phase, while in solution, the DPT process may occur only through the catalysis of water molecules. Nevertheless, a thermodynamic analysis confirms that AU does not contribute to spontaneous mutation in RNA duplex, and thus guanine–cytosine (GC) would be the only base pair contributing to spontaneous mutation.
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