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Structure-function relations of molecular beacons. (a) Melting temperatures for molecular beacons with different structures in the presence of complementary targets. (b) The rate constant of hybridization k1(on-rate constant) for molecular beacons with various probe and stem lengths hybridized to their complementary targets.
