Table 2.

Interaction energy components between Cy3 and the first basepair in stacked conformations

System	van der Waals (kcal/mol)	Electrostatics (kcal/mol)
A·T	−16.5 ± 1.8	−35.9 ± 3.1
G·C	−17.4 ± 1.9	−37.3 ± 3.4
C·G	−18.2 ± 1.8	−33.3 ± 5.3
T·A	−15.6 ± 2.3	−41.6 ± 9.3