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Table 3 T50, Tto, Ttd and Ttd – Tto values for known oligonucleotides

From: Quantitation of DNA methylation by melt curve analysis

Oligonucleotide

T50

Tto

Ttd

Ttd – Tto

Unmethylated

79.07 ± 0.06

78.48 ± 0.05

80.60 ± 0.06

2.12 ± 0.07

Partially methylated

80.00 ± 0.26

78.85 ± 0.53

82.39 ± 0.17

3.54 ± 0.47

Fully methylated

82.10 ± 0.00

81.13 ± 0.05

84.29 ± 0.03

3.16 ± 0.15

U/P

79.27 ± 0.21

78.30 ± 0.05

81.47 ± 0.18

3.17 ± 0.15

U/M

80.17 ± 0.15

78.45 ± 0.11

83.36 ± 0.19

4.90 ± 0.21

  1. U/P – unmethylated oligonucleotide spiked with partially methylated oligonucleotide.
  2. U/M – unmethylated oligonucleotide spiked with fully methylated oligonucleotide.
  3. All values are the mean ± standard deviation of 3 replicate reactions.