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SUBMITTER: Woodside MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2656380 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Woodside Michael T MT Anthony Peter C PC Behnke-Parks William M WM Larizadeh Kevan K Herschlag Daniel D Block Steven M SM
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20061101 5801
Nucleic acid hairpins provide a powerful model system for understanding macromolecular folding, with free-energy landscapes that can be readily manipulated by changing the hairpin sequence. The full shapes of energy landscapes for the reversible folding of DNA hairpins under controlled loads exerted by an optical force clamp were obtained by deconvolution from high-resolution, single-molecule trajectories. The locations and heights of the energy barriers for hairpin folding could be tuned by adj ...[more]