Table 1. The percentage of A, BI and BII nucleotides and the BII/BI ratio in the polyamine–DNA samples at 85 and 95% RH from integration of the orientational distribution functions in Figure 3.
| 85% RH | 95% RH | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %A | %BI | %BII | BII/BI | %A | %BI | %BII | BII/BI | |
| Spd–DNA | 51 | 27 | 20 | 0.74 | 0 (–5) | 60 | 45 | 0.75 |
| Cad–DNA | 0 (4) | 48 | 49 | 1.0 | 0 (4) | 50 | 41 | 0.82 |
| Put–DNA | 27 | 38 | 37 | 1.0 | 0 (5) | 47 | 39 | 0.83 |
| DAP–DNA | 56 | 24 | 24 | 1.0 | 0 (–1) | 57 | 41 | 0.72 |
The error limit is ∼5%, and intensities below this number are set to zero but given in parenthesis.