Table 2.

Protected DNA Length (bp) in the PANS, from Atomistic MD Simulations and Experiment

	MD Simulations		AFM Dataa		MNase Protection
	Median	Range	Median	Rangeb	Peaksa,c
Disome	43	14	36	8	15–45
Tetrasome	69	10	74	16	46–75
Hexasome	110	7	109	18	76–120
Octasome	147	0d	148	6	140–150

^aObtained from analysis of the experimental data representing a mix of PANS.

^bInterquartile range.

^cData from Teves and Henikoff (31) (see section Interpretation of genome-wide mapping data).

^dModeled octasome structure does not contain linker DNA.