Table 2.

Tomato plant and Paramecium variant telomeric sequences and T_ms determined by analysis of melting curves recorded at 295 nm, at 3 µM oligonucleotide strand concentration

Sequence name	Sequence (from 5′ to 3′)	Tm (°C) in NaCl	Tm (°C) in KCl
Tomato plant
Tom24	G3TTAAG3TTAAG3TTAAG3	55	67
TAA	G3TTTAG3TTAAG3TTAAG3	58	65
ATA	G3TTAAG3TTTAG3TTAAG3	57	69
AAT	G3TTAAG3TTAAG3TTTAG3	58	67
TTA	G3TTTAG3TTTAG3TTAAG3	58	66
TAT	G3TTTAG3TTAAG3TTTAG3	57	64
ATT	G3TTAAG3TTTAG3TTTAG3	56	67
Ara24	G3TTTAG3TTTAG3TTTAG3	58	66
Paramecium
Par21	G3TTTG3TTTG3TTTG3	52	68
GTT	G3GTTG3TTTG3TTTG3	54	72
TGT	G3TTTG3GTTG3TTTG3	52	68
TTG	G3TTTG3TTTG3GTTG3	59	72
GGT	G3GTTG3GTTG3TTTG3	54	71
GTG	G3GTTG3TTTG3GTTG3	58	74
TGG	G3TTTG3GTTG3GTTG3	58	73
GGG	G3GTTG3GTTG3GTTG3	60	76

T_ms reported in this table were obtained on a different spectrophotometer from those reported in Table 1.

Temperature was measured with a sensor in a sealed cuvet provided by the manufacturer; this may explain the slightly higher T_ms reported in this table as compared to T_ms reported in Table 1 for Tom24, Ara24 and Par21.

TDS and CD spectra are reported in Supplementary Figures S4 and S5.