Table 2.

UV-cooling-melting temperatures: temperatures of dissociation (T_dis) and association (T_ass) in°C

RNA-III*	wt						mut
PNA*	Tdis	Tass	Δa	Tdis	Tass	Δb	Tdis	Tass	Δa
13mer-I	88	70	−18	78	65	−13	83	58	−25
13mer-I-Acr	85	75	−8				86	65	−11
13mer-II	52	52	0				45	45	0
11mer-bis	87	80	−7				74	69	−5
9mer	84	58	−26	75	60	−15
9mer-Acr	86	59	−27
9mer-bis	82	78	−4

*PNA and *RNA sequences in Table 1.

^aΔ and ^bΔ = T_ass − T_dis obtained in cooling–melting experiments with heating rates of 0.5°C/min and 0.1°C/min, respectively.