VERY SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION BETWEEN CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY OF POLYCYCLIC-HYDROCARBONS AND CERTAIN PROPERTIES OF THEIR TRANSITION-STATES IN RANGE OF LOWEST TRIPLET-STATES OF DNA

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 47  (2) , 97-105
Abstract
A very significant correlation between carcinogenic power of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their probability of photoinduced double resonance transitions in the UV range of about 3-3.5 eV is shown. The resonance can be interpreted in terms of the lowest triplet state energy of thymine at 3.25 eV and the energy difference between the triplet states of A.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.T [adenine-thymine] and G.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.C [guanine-cytosine] base pairs. The correlation was predicted from a hypothesis which describes cell communication by photon interaction within a cell population.