. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 25.

Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2009 Jul 22;392(5):1145–1157. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.07.048

Table 1.

Cis-syn cyclobutane dimer photoproduct yield and deamination half life.

entry		Abbrev.	Py=Py	Flanking N	sequence^a	% yield	t_1/2 (h)
1	Double	GT^mCG	T=^mC	G--G	tGT=^mCGtc	5.4	5.8 ± 0.6
2	Strand	GTCG	T=C	G--G	tGT=CGtc	1	4.9 ± 0.8
3		ITCI	T=^mC	I--I	tIT=^mCItc	29	14.1 ± 0.8
4		^aPT^mC^aP	T=^mC	^aP--^aP	t^aPT=^mC^aPtc	2.8	43 ± 2
5		AT^mCA	T=^mC	A--A	tAT=^mCAtc	17	175 ± 1
6		ATCA	T=C	A--A	tAT=CAtc	7	46 ± 1.4
7		G^mCTG	^mC=T	G--G	tG^mC=TGgc	3.4	20.0 ± 0.5
8		A^mCTA	^mC=T	A--A	tA^mC=TAgc	7.8	~500
9		GT^mCA	T=^mC	G--A	tGT=^mCAtc	8.8	230 ± 18
10		AT^mCG	T=^mC	A--G	tAT=^mCGtc	12	7.1 ± 0.2
11		ATCG	T=C	A--G	tAT=CGtc	5	5.3 ± 0.5
12		TT^mCTT	T=^mC/^mC=T	T--T	tTT^mCTtc	15.7	385 ± 40
13		CC^mCCC	C=^mC/^mC=C	C--C	tCC^mCCcc	6	300 ± 40
14		GT^mCGGG	T=^mC	G--GGG	tGT=^mCGgg	3.3	5.5 ± 0.5
15		GGGT^mCG	T=^mC	GGG--G	gGT=^mCGtc	3.9	nd

16	Single	GT^mCG	T^mC	G--G	tGT=^mCGtc	5.3	3.5 ± 0.1
17	Strand	AT^mCA	T^mC	A--A	tAT=^mCAtc	7.8	4.2 ± 0.2
18		G^mCTG	^mCT	G--G	tG^mC=TGgc	3.4	10.7 ± 0.6
19		A^mCTA	^mCT	A--A	tA^mC=TAgc	7.3	12.1 ± 0.4

The sequence shown is embedded in the 42-mer single strand sequence: d(GTGTATGTATGTGTATGnNXYNnnGTGTATATATGTGTATGT). The double strand sequence is formed by annealing to its fully complementary strand. I: inosine, ^aP: 2-aminopurine, and ^mC: 5-methylcytosine.