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Dimitra Markovitsi

Dimitra Markovitsi

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Chemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
8226
World Ranking
14094
National Ranking
582

Overview

Dimitra Markovitsi is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and specializes in research at the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work primarily focuses on molecular biology, with significant contributions also in electrical and electronic engineering, physical and theoretical chemistry, materials chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their research covers several key topics, including:

  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Markovitsi has published extensively in various scientific venues. Most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (5 publications)
  • Accounts of Chemical Research (2 publications)
  • Molecules (2 publications)
  • Photochemistry and Photobiology (2 publications)
  • Chemical Science (1 publication)

Recent publications feature detailed studies on DNA photodamage, guanine radicals, and the photochemistry of G-quadruplexes, among others. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Fundamentals of the Intrinsic DNA Fluorescence" (2021), published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Guanine Radicals Induced in DNA by Low-Energy Photoionization" (2020), published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Potassium Ions Enhance Guanine Radical Generation upon Absorption of Low-Energy Photons by G-Quadruplexes and Modify Their Reactivity" (2020), published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "The Structural Duality of Nucleobases in Guanine Quadruplexes Controls Their Low-Energy Photoionization" (2021), published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Guanine Radicals Generated in Telomeric G-Quadruplexes by Direct Absorption of Low-Energy UV Photons: Effect of Potassium Ions" (2020), published in Molecules

Among book contributions, Markovitsi has authored a work titled "DNA Photodamage," published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2021.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Evangelos Balanikas
  • Lara Martínez-Fernández
  • Gérard Baldacchino
  • Ákos Bányász
  • Giulio Cerullo

Best Publications

  • Singlet Excited-State Behavior of Uracil and Thymine in Aqueous Solution: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study of 11 Uracil Derivatives

    Thomas Gustavsson;Akos Bányász;Elodie Lazzarotto;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • Fluorescence Properties of DNA Nucleosides and Nucleotides: A Refined Steady-State and Femtosecond Investigation

    D. Onidas;D. Markovitsi;Sylvie Marguet;A. Sharonov

  • DNA/RNA: Building Blocks of Life Under UV Irradiation

    Thomas Gustavsson;Roberto Improta;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • Triphenylene Columnar Liquid Crystals: Excited States and Energy Transfer

    Dimitra Markovitsi;Arnaud Germain;Philippe Millie;Pierre Lecuyer

  • Near infrared absorption spectra of lanthanide bis-phthalocyanines

    Dimitra Markovitsi;Thu-Hoa Tran-Thi;Raymond Even;Jacques Simon

  • Molecular spectroscopy: Complexity of excited-state dynamics in DNA

    Dimitra Markovitsi;Francis Talbot;Thomas Gustavsson;Delphine Onidas

  • UVA-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA: a direct photochemical mechanism?

    Stéphane Mouret;Coralie Philippe;Jocelyne Gracia-Chantegrel;Akos Banyasz

  • Electronic excited states responsible for dimer formation upon UV absorption directly by thymine strands: joint experimental and theoretical study.

    Akos Banyasz;Thierry Douki;Roberto Improta;Thomas Gustavsson

  • Thymine, thymidine and thymidine 5′-monophosphate studied by femtosecond fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy

    Thomas Gustavsson;Alexei Sharonov;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • INFLUENCE OF DISORDER ON ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATES : AN EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF ALKYLTHIOTRIPHENYLENE COLUMNAR PHASES

    Sylvie Marguet;Dimitra Markovitsi;and Philippe Millié;Hervé Sigal

  • Adenine, deoxyadenosine and deoxyadenosine 5′-monophosphate studied by femtosecond fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy

    Thomas Gustavsson;Alexei Sharonov;Delphine Onidas;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • Collective behavior of Franck-Condon excited states and energy transfer in DNA double helices

    Dimitra Markovitsi;Delphine Onidas;Thomas Gustavsson;Francis Talbot

  • Dipolar coupling between electronic transitions of the DNA bases and its relevance to exciton states in double helices

    B. Bouvier;T. Gustavsson;D. Markovitsi;P. Millié

  • Time-resolved study of thymine dimer formation.

    Sylvie Marguet;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • Influence of conformational dynamics on the exciton states of DNA oligomers

    Benjamin Bouvier;Jean-Pierre Dognon;Richard Lavery;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • Superior Photoprotective Motifs and Mechanisms in Eumelanins Uncovered

    Alice Corani;Annemarie Huijser;Thomas Gustavsson;Dimitra Markovitsi

  • Excited states and energy transfer among DNA bases in double helices

    Dimitra Markovitsi;Thomas Gustavsson;Francis Talbot

  • BASE-PAIRING ENHANCES FLUORESCENCE AND FAVORS CYCLOBUTANE DIMER FORMATION INDUCED UPON ABSORPTION OF UVA RADIATION BY DNA

    Akos Banyasz;Ignacio Vayá;Pascale Changenet-Barret;Thomas Gustavsson

  • Fluorescence of natural DNA: from the femtosecond to the nanosecond time scales.

    Ignacio Vayá;Thomas Gustavsson;François-Alexandre Miannay;Thierry Douki

  • UV-induced DNA Damage: The Role of Electronic Excited States.

    Dimitra Markovitsi

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Gustavsson
Thomas Gustavsson University of Paris-Saclay
Roberto Improta
Roberto Improta University of Naples Federico II
Thierry Douki
Thierry Douki Grenoble Alpes University
Jacques Simon
Jacques Simon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frederick D. Lewis
Frederick D. Lewis Northwestern University
Helmut Ringsdorf
Helmut Ringsdorf Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Nilmoni Sarkar
Nilmoni Sarkar Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Miguel A. Miranda
Miguel A. Miranda Universitat Politècnica de València
John R. Helliwell
John R. Helliwell University of Manchester
Bern Kohler
Bern Kohler The Ohio State University

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