Research Article
Influence of a Hairpin Loop on the Thermodynamic Stability of a DNA Oligomer
Table 1
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aUnits: , , ; unless stated otherwise the values are those obtained at ; bobtained from fitting the model function; cobtained as the slope of versus curves (Figure 3(a)); d the total enthalpy of the of the transition was calculated as where and are the melting temperatures of the and transitions and and are the corresponding enthalpies of transition. |