. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Biopolymers. 2008 Sep;89(9):722–731. doi: 10.1002/bip.21000

Table 2.

Mechanical constants for various DNA sequences with a salt concentration of 0.05M and T=300K. The values reported in italics and bold correspond to stiffer and more flexible characteristics than random DNA, respectively

Sequences	Persistence Length (Å)	Stretching rigidity (pN)	Twisting rigidity (10⁻¹⁹erg.cm)
GACT	595	1502	4.66
poly d(AT)	594	1259	11.53
poly d(GC)	648	1601	5.01
poly d(A) . poly d(T)	743	1713	3.29
poly d(G) . poly d(C)	697	1086	4.12
CTG	573	1215	3.82
CGG	475	1271	2.87
Random	594	1251	4.02
Random min	548	1138	3.10
Random max	632	1341	4.67
Standard deviation	19	55	0.41