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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 2.

Summary of thermodynamic parameters for melting of 143D in 50 mm NaCl assessed by different techniques derived from analysis of the data in Figure3, Panels A, C and E by GlobalWorks.

Method Std Dev of Fit Tm1 (°C) ΔH1 (kcal/mol) Tm2 (°C) ΔH2 (kcal/mol) Tm3 (°C) ΔH3 (kcal/mol)
Absorbance 0.0006 24.5 ± 1.6 33.4 ± 0.2 51.8 ± 0.6 35.4 ± 1.3 70.1 ± 1.0 16.5 ± 0.4
CD 0.566 23.0 ± 0.7 21.7 ± 0.7 49.5 ± 0.5 34.5 ± 0.6 71.6 ± 1.6 17 ± 3
FRET 0.639 38.0 ± 0.4 24.6 ± 1.9 58.7 ± 0.2 14.4 ± 0.6