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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 20.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2006 Feb 14;45(6):1745–1754. doi: 10.1021/bi051831q

Table 1.

Melting temperatures and thermodynamic parameters* for folding of RQ and hybridization with complementary (P7C) and homologous (P7H) PNAs.

−ΔG298K (kcal/mol) −ΔH (kcal/mol) −TΔS298K (kcal/mol) Tm (°C)
RQ 2.7 ± 0.5 39.5 ± 1.1 36.8 ± 1.0 47.2 ± 1.0
RQ + P7C 12.3 ± 0.4 43.0 ± 0.4 30.6 ± 2.0 58.7 ± 0.8
RQ + 2P7H 28.5 ± 0.4 95.7 ± 1.9 67.1 ± 2.0 70.1 ± 0.5
*

Determined by curve fitting (41).