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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2013 Apr 8;135(15):5602–5611. doi: 10.1021/ja310820h

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Effect of adenosine to guanosine substitutions in the tetraloop. Force-extension curves of the AA (a and b), GA (d and e), and GG (f) RNAs in 1 M NaCl at pH 7.4. In b and e, the lowest relaxation force was set at 10 pN to prevent kissing formation. (c) An enlarged view of the hairpin folding in trajectory b. (g and h) Enlarged views of the unkiss and kissing transitions in d, respectively.