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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2009 Jan;9(1):308–311. doi: 10.1021/nl802958f

Table 1.

Half-Life, Maximum Reaction Velocity (Vmax), and Enzyme Association Constant (1/Km) for Molecular DNA and DNA-Au NP Systems

system half-life (min) Vmax (nM sec−1) 1/Km (μM−1)
Molecular DNA 23 ± 4 0.27 ± 0.04 1.6 ± 0.3
DNA-Au NP 100 ± 16 0.10 ± 0.03 2.6 ± 0.6