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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2010 Apr 13;49(14):3174–3190. doi: 10.1021/bi901871u

Table 3.

Summary of MCSBE simulations showing the average lifetime MutS spends on the DNA (Figure 8C) as well as the total number of conformational transitions and states sampled in a single binding event for a given initial state in the simulation.

MCSBE initial state

U U* I B* B SB Average at
equilibrium
Residence time on the DNA 38.80 37.81 29.82 30.33 41.44 46.50 38.61
# conformational transitions
in SBE
4.97 4.94 3.60 4.34 4.19 4.96 4.28
# unique states sampled in
SBE (including the initial
state)
2.91 3.12 2.45 2.85 2.43 3.05 2.59