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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Soc Rev. 2014 Apr 23;43(13):4871–4893. doi: 10.1039/c4cs00048j

Fig.11.

Fig.11

Interactive force unfolding of an RNA hairpin modelled by Hire-RNA. Visualization and interaction were performed within VMD. Starting from an initial folded conformation (top left), the user tears apart both ends by applying forces (blue arrows) on the C4’ beads of the end bases. Two scenarios were observed after releasing the forces, either the structure refolds and returns to a full hairpin state (1) or a base shift occurs (2). A cumulated view of simulation snapshots is shown on the very right, coloured from white (start of the simulation) to black (final snapshot). The end base C4’-C4’ distance curve over time is shown for both experiments.