BE.410 Spring 2003 - Lecture 4 Slides
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See Figures 1 and 2 in Liphardt, Jan, et al. "Reversible Unfolding of Single RNA Molecules
by Mechanical Force." Science 292 (27 April 2001).
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Hooke’s law
dsDNA
fit to WLC model
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After Bustamante et al., Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2001