Table 1. Melting Temperatures of DNA/Polyamide Complexes for Cognate and Mismatch Duplexes^a.

	match DNA		mismatch DNA
X-Y	A-T	T-A	G-C	C-G
DNA	58.0 ± 0.2	58.2 ± 0.5	59.6 ± 0.1	59.8 ± 0.3
1	76.2 ± 1.9 [18.2]	76.2 ± 2.3 [17.9]	71.2 ± 0.2 [11.7]	72.3 ± 0.3 [12.4]
2	73.8 ± 0.3 [15.8]	75.2 ± 1.5 [17.0]	69.9 ± 0.1 [10.3]	70.0 ± 0.4 [10.1]
3	76.6 ± 1.1 [18.6]	77.1 ± 0.8 [18.9]	70.8 ± 0.6 [11.9]	72.9 ± 0.3 [13.1]
4	73.2 ± 1.3 [15.2]	74.6 ± 1.0 [16.3]	68.5 ± 0.5 [8.6]	69.1 ± 0.3 [9.3]

^aAll values are derived from at least three independent experiments. Shift in melting temperature temperature (ΔT_m) is reported in brackets below the absolute value.