Thermodynamic treatment of oligonucleotide duplex-simplex equilibria.

Owczarzy, Richard; Dunietz, Isard; Behlke, Mark A; Klotz, Irving M; Walder, Joseph A · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2003

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Thermodynamic formulations have been devised to obtain Delta G degrees values directly from spectroscopic data at a fixed common temperature in nucleic acid duplex-simplex melting curves. In addition, the dependence of melting on salt concentration has been expressed in terms of a stepwise stoichiometric representation, which leads to a specific equation for the partition of the added sodium ions between the different oligonucleotide forms.

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