Research Article

Influence of a Hairpin Loop on the Thermodynamic Stability of a DNA Oligomer

Figure 3

Estimation of heat capacity changes and number of released Na+ ions: (a) was determined for each transition as the slope of the versus plot constructed from the model based and values determined at different salt concentrations; (b) the corresponding versus plots from which the values were determined according to (20).
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