Elementary Molecular Mechanisms of the Spontaneous Point Mutations in DNA: A Novel Quantum-Chemical Insight into the Classical Understanding

Ol'ha O. Brovarets‘1,2,3, Iryna M. Kolomiets‘1 and Dmytro M. Hovorun1,2,3 1Department of Molecular and Quantum Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2Research and Educational Center “State Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology“, Kyiv, 3Department of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Biophysics, Institute of High Technologies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine