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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Sep 26;(41):5128–5130. doi: 10.1039/b811159f

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Molecular beacon design and interactions. (a) MB binding to complementary target; (b) MB mis-folds into non-hairpin structure through the hybridization of loop sequence with stem sequence; (c) MB opened by adventitious DNA that binds to MB stem.