Figure 4. Various thermodynamic equilibrium properties of competing denaturation and B-Z transitions in the pBR322 sequence are shown as functions of temperature.

All calculations were performed at : (a) The probability of each transition , , are shown, as is the probability of both transitions occurring simultaneously; (b) the average number of transformed base pairs is shown for each transition type; (c) the average number of runs are plotted for each transition type. The average total number of runs also is shown.