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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2017 Aug 21;121(34):8026–8036. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b03873

Table 1.

[Na+]-dependent Mg2+ Binding fractions for 24-bp B-DNA with [Mg2+] = 6 mM determined from the experiments,100 the PCTBI model, and the MCTBI model, respectively. DeltaE is the relative error between the theoretical prediction and the experimental result.

Exp. data* PCTBI MCTBI
[Na+]/mM fMg2+ fMg2+ ΔE** fMg 2+ ΔE
0 0.467 ± 0.012 0.468 ± 0.37 ×10−4 0.17% 0.469 ± 0.39 ×10−4 0.42%
12 0.430 ± 0.004 0.413 ± 1.77 ×10−4 4.13% 0.410 ± 1.50 ×10−4 4.81%
18 0.400 ± 0.011 0.390 ± 2.49 ×10−4 2.59% 0.386 ± 1.60 ×10−4 3.41%
28 0.370 ± 0.002 0.355 ± 3.04 ×10−4 3.87% 0.354 ± 1.82 ×10−4 4.10%
48 0.304 ± 0.002 0.307 ± 3.10 ×10−4 0.93% 0.300 ± 2.07 ×10−4 1.39%
100 0.187 ± 0.004 0.195 ± 2.95 ×10−4 4.31% 0.196 ± 1.73 ×10−4 4.85%
*

The experiment data were provided in the Ref. 100.

**

The relative error ΔE = |(fprefexp)/fexp|, where fpre and fexp are the prediction and experiment data.