Correction: Base recognition by L-nucleotides in heterochiral DNA

Abstract

Correction for ‘Base recognition by L-nucleotides in heterochiral DNA’ by Shuji Ogawa et al., RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2274–2275.

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The authors regret that some of the data in the original article were presented incorrectly. Some of the oligonucleotide sequences in the Graphical Abstract, Fig. 2 and Table 1 were originally presented in reverse sequence. The corrected versions of the Graphical Abstract, Fig. 2 and Table 1 are presented below.

Fig. 2 Effects of base pair mismatch of D- (a–d) and L-nucleotide (e–h) on duplex stability. Samples contained 6 mM duplex in 10 mM MgCl₂, 100 mM NaCl, and 70 mM MOPS (pH 7.1). Yellow bars denote T_m values of fully matched duplexes, and blue bars denote T_m values of mismatched duplexes.

Table 1 UV-melting points of homo- and heterochiral duplexes^a

Duplex	Template strand	Complementary strand	Tm (°C)	ΔTm^b (°C)
a Samples contained 6 μM duplex in 10 mM MgCl2, 100 mM NaCl, and 70 mM MOPS (pH 7.1).b Melting temperature difference from the homochiral duplex.
Homochiral strand
1	d(AAATCTGCG)	d(CGCAGATTT)	42.1	—
Heterochiral strand
2	d(AALATCTGCG)	d(CGCAGATTT)	33.6	−8.5
3	d(AAATCTLGCG)	d(CGCAGATTT)	32.6	−9.5
4	d(AAATLCTGCG)	d(CGCAGATTT)	38.2	−3.9
5	d(AAALTCTGCG)	d(CGCAGATTT)	33.9	−8.2

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The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.

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