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Schematic and sequence of the tethered duplex system. The system consists of two 12 bp DNA duplexes (red) joined by a flexible PEG tether (green). Under low ionic conditions, extended conformers dominate the unfolded ensemble; as ions are added, the ensemble relaxes to more relaxed states.
