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Aouina NY, Chaoui ZEA. Electrons and positrons elastic collisions with pyrimidine and tetrahydrofuran. Appl Radiat Isot 2018; 140:347-354. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2018.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Loupas A, Lozano AI, Blanco F, Gorfinkiel JD, García G. Cross sections for electron scattering from thiophene for a broad energy range. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:034304. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5040352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Alexandra Loupas
- Laboratório de Colisões Atómicas e Moleculares, CEFITEC, Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Lisbon, Portugal
- School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 113-bis, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 113-bis, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Liu W, Tan Z, Zhang L, Champion C. Investigation on the correlation between energy deposition and clustered DNA damage induced by low-energy electrons. RADIATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOPHYSICS 2018; 57:179-187. [PMID: 29335772 DOI: 10.1007/s00411-018-0730-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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This study presents the correlation between energy deposition and clustered DNA damage, based on a Monte Carlo simulation of the spectrum of direct DNA damage induced by low-energy electrons including the dissociative electron attachment. Clustered DNA damage is classified as simple and complex in terms of the combination of single-strand breaks (SSBs) or double-strand breaks (DSBs) and adjacent base damage (BD). The results show that the energy depositions associated with about 90% of total clustered DNA damage are below 150 eV. The simple clustered DNA damage, which is constituted of the combination of SSBs and adjacent BD, is dominant, accounting for 90% of all clustered DNA damage, and the spectra of the energy depositions correlating with them are similar for different primary energies. One type of simple clustered DNA damage is the combination of a SSB and 1-5 BD, which is denoted as SSB + BD. The average contribution of SSB + BD to total simple clustered DNA damage reaches up to about 84% for the considered primary energies. In all forms of SSB + BD, the SSB + BD including only one base damage is dominant (above 80%). In addition, for the considered primary energies, there is no obvious difference between the average energy depositions for a fixed complexity of SSB + BD determined by the number of base damage, but average energy depositions increase with the complexity of SSB + BD. In the complex clustered DNA damage constituted by the combination of DSBs and BD around them, a relatively simple type is a DSB combining adjacent BD, marked as DSB + BD, and it is of substantial contribution (on average up to about 82%). The spectrum of DSB + BD is given mainly by the DSB in combination with different numbers of base damage, from 1 to 5. For the considered primary energies, the DSB combined with only one base damage contributes about 83% of total DSB + BD, and the average energy deposition is about 106 eV. However, the energy deposition increases with the complexity of clustered DNA damage, and therefore, the clustered DNA damage with high complexity still needs to be considered in the study of radiation biological effects, in spite of their small contributions to all clustered DNA damage.
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- Wei Liu
- School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, People's Republic of China
- School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan, 250357, People's Republic of China
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
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- Electric Power Research Institute of Tianjin Electric Power Corporation, Tianjin, 300384, People's Republic of China
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- Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 120, 33175, Gradignan, France
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Liu W, Tan Z, Zhang L, Champion C. Calculation on spectrum of direct DNA damage induced by low-energy electrons including dissociative electron attachment. RADIATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOPHYSICS 2017; 56:99-110. [PMID: 28185000 DOI: 10.1007/s00411-016-0681-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2015] [Accepted: 12/30/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this work, direct DNA damage induced by low-energy electrons (sub-keV) is simulated using a Monte Carlo method. The characteristics of the present simulation are to consider the new mechanism of DNA damage due to dissociative electron attachment (DEA) and to allow determining damage to specific bases (i.e., adenine, thymine, guanine, or cytosine). The electron track structure in liquid water is generated, based on the dielectric response model for describing electron inelastic scattering and on a free-parameter theoretical model and the NIST database for calculating electron elastic scattering. Ionization cross sections of DNA bases are used to generate base radicals, and available DEA cross sections of DNA components are applied for determining DNA-strand breaks and base damage induced by sub-ionization electrons. The electron elastic scattering from DNA components is simulated using cross sections from different theoretical calculations. The resulting yields of various strand breaks and base damage in cellular environment are given. Especially, the contributions of sub-ionization electrons to various strand breaks and base damage are quantitatively presented, and the correlation between complex clustered DNA damage and the corresponding damaged bases is explored. This work shows that the contribution of sub-ionization electrons to strand breaks is substantial, up to about 40-70%, and this contribution is mainly focused on single-strand break. In addition, the base damage induced by sub-ionization electrons contributes to about 20-40% of the total base damage, and there is an evident correlation between single-strand break and damaged base pair A-T.
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- Wei Liu
- School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, People's Republic of China
- Electric Power Research Institute of Tianjin Electric Power Corporation, Tianjin, 300384, People's Republic of China
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- Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 120, 33175, Gradignan, France
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An electron-impact cross section data set (10 eV–1 keV) of DNA constituents based on consistent experimental data: A requisite for Monte Carlo simulations. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2016.09.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Regeta K, Allan M, Winstead C, McKoy V, Mašín Z, Gorfinkiel JD. Resonance effects in elastic cross sections for electron scattering on pyrimidine: Experiment and theory. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:024301. [PMID: 26772565 DOI: 10.1063/1.4937790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We measured differential cross sections for elastic (rotationally integrated) electron scattering on pyrimidine, both as a function of angle up to 180(∘) at electron energies of 1, 5, 10, and 20 eV and as a function of electron energy in the range 0.1-14 eV. The experimental results are compared to the results of the fixed-nuclei Schwinger variational and R-matrix theoretical methods, which reproduce satisfactorily the magnitudes and shapes of the experimental cross sections. The emphasis of the present work is on recording detailed excitation functions revealing resonances in the excitation process. Resonant structures are observed at 0.2, 0.7, and 4.35 eV and calculations for different symmetries confirm their assignment as the X̃(2)A2, Ã(2)B1, and B̃(2)B1 shape resonances. As a consequence of superposition of coherent resonant amplitudes with background scattering the B̃(2)B1 shape resonance appears as a peak, a dip, or a step function in the cross sections recorded as a function of energy at different scattering angles and this effect is satisfactorily reproduced by theory. The dip and peak contributions at different scattering angles partially compensate, making the resonance nearly invisible in the integral cross section. Vibrationally integrated cross sections were also measured at 1, 5, 10 and 20 eV and the question of whether the fixed-nuclei cross sections should be compared to vibrationally elastic or vibrationally integrated cross section is discussed.
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- Khrystyna Regeta
- Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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Sieradzka A, Blanco F, Fuss MC, Mašín Z, Gorfinkiel JD, García G. Electron Scattering from Pyridine. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:6657-63. [DOI: 10.1021/jp503665a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- A. Sieradzka
- Department
of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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- Departamento
de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano
113-bis, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Department
of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano
113-bis, 28006 Madrid, Spain
- Centre
for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, New South Wales, Australia
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