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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2010 Mar 4;114(8):2876–2885. doi: 10.1021/jp9064246

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Thermodynamic cycle to determine a base insertion free energy (ΔGins) from the observed melting free energies for the full length DNA (ΔGD(N)) and DNA containing terminal abasic site (ΔGD(N-1)).