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Wonderful world of single biopolymer thermodynamics: Comment on “Biophysical characterization of DNA binding from single molecule force measurements” by K.R. Chaurasiya et al.

✍ Scribed by Ralf Metzler

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
70 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1571-0645

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This work is a valuable review of experiments that probe the interactions of small molecules and DNA under tension. However, I disagree with the review's premise (Sections 1.3 and 2.1) that overstretching of bare, torsionally unconstrained DNA consists solely of dehybridization of the molecule. Und