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Examples of the diverse protein and nucleic acid systems that have been studied using optical tweezers, ranging in complexity from simple hairpins, formed in RNA or double-stranded DNA, to the bacterial ribosome, a macromolecular machine comprised of over 50 protein subunits and three structured RNA molecules (not to scale). The systems have been grouped into categories (boxes).
