Additions and corrections


Chimeric GNA/DNA metal-mediated base pairs

Kristof Seubert, Célia Fonseca Guerra, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt and Jens Müller

Chem. Commun., 2011, 11041–11043 (DOI: 10.1039/c1cc13774c) Amendment published 01 November 2011


There is an error in Table 2 that was introduced during type-setting. The sequence of the oligonucleotide duplex displayed in the right half of Table 2 is identical to the one in the left half. It should be a different sequence as shown in the corrected table below.

Table 2 Melting temperatures of the oligonucleotide duplexes I (left) and II (right) comprising dipic (X) and azole (Y) nucleobases in the presence of Ag+a


Y 5′-d(GAGGGAAGAXAAG)

3′-d(CTCCCTTCTYTTC)

5′-d(GAGGGAXAGAAAG)

3′-d(CTCCCTYTCTTTC)

T m/°C ΔTm/°C T m/°C ΔTm/°C
a Conditions: 3 μM oligonucleotide duplex, 150 mM NaClO4, 5 mM MOPS (pH 6.8), 3 μM metal salt. The estimated standard deviation of Tm amounts to 1 °C.
im 35.0 +7.2 36.0 +7.9
tri 30.6 +2.8 29.5 +1.4
tet 30.3 +2.2 29.9 +1.7




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