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. 2019 Nov 28;9:17822. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-54044-x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Decrease in fluorescence intensity after chemically-induced abasic site cleavage on substrates with varying number of dU incorporations and as a function of time. The actual cleavage efficiencies correlate with the loss of fluorescence intensity, resulting from DNA substrate cleavage. The decrease in fluorescence intensity was recorded and normalized to that of the control strand (U0). The normalized intensities, indicated in arbitrary units, were plotted over the exposure time for the chemical treatments. The DNA array was treated under acidic conditions (A), alkaline conditions (B) or by evaporating the surface to dryness (C) and for various exposure times (1, 2, 4, 8, 12 and 20 hours). The substrate strands contained different ratios of dU nucleotides indicated with different colors: U0 (black), U1 (red), U2 (light green), U3 (yellow), U4 (blue), U5 (pink), U6 (turquoise), U7 (gray), U8 (dark red) and U9 (dark green). Error bars are SD.