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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Nucleic Acid Chem. 2011 Jun;CHAPTER:Unit17.4. doi: 10.1002/0471142700.nc1704s45

Table 1.

Summary of thermodynamic parameters estimated by non-linear least squares fit to Equation 1 describing a two-state equilibrium from the data in Figure 3, panels B, D and F.

Method Wavelength (nm) Tm (°C) ΔH°vH (kcal/mol) A × 106
Absorbance 295 56.7 ± 0.5 18.7 ± 0.7 10.0 ± 0.3
260 51.0 ± 0.4 37.4 ± 1.7 -17.6 ± 0.7
 CD 295 41.4 ± 0.4 32.0 ± 1.3 -110 ± 4
260 33.1 ± 1.8 18.4 ± 2.2 800 ± 8
 FRET 570 32.1 ± 0.4 46.0 ± 0.4 -50.0 ± 3.1
520 38.8 ± 0.4 21.0 ± 0.6 210 ± 5