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. 2012 Jun 21;7(6):e39676. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039676

Table 1. Summary of Lc, Le-e, and Lp from tangent angle correlation, second moment and end-to-end length analyses.

Incubation time (seconds) 30* 300 600 #1 600 #2 600 #3 900**
Number of molecules 1852 199 741 628 798 979
Contour length, Lc (nm) 39.3±0.1 39.6±0.2 39.7±0.1 40.0±0.1 40.5±0.1 40.1±0.1
End-to-end Length, Le-e (nm) 32.8±0.1 32.6±0.3 33.2±0.1 32.9±0.2 32.9±0.1 33.3±0.1
Normalized end-to-end length, le-e 0.937±0.002 0.928±0.005 0.932±0.003 0.928±0.003 0.923±0.003 0.930±0.002
Persistence length, Lp (nm) by tangent angle correlation 48.3±0.7 42.3±0.4 45.8±0.8 43.5±0.8 40.6±0.8 45.5±0.7
Persistence length, Lp (nm) by le-e distribution 64.4±3.4 44.7±4.7 51.6±2.1 49.0±2.8 41.7±2.0 49.6±3.2
Persistence length, Lp (nm) by tangent angle second moment 45.9±0.3 40.9±0.2 44.5±0.4 41.9±0.3 39.5±0.3 44.0±0.3
*

0.01% p-Lys deposition on mica by 30 s incubation.

**

0.01% p-Lys deposition on mica by 300 s incubation.