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Between competitive DNA-rupturing pathways, unzipping is both kinetically and thermodynamically favored over shearing. The balance between reversed, DNA-binding processes “zipping” and “unshearing” is more subtle: zipping should proceed more quickly and be kinetically favored, but unshearing (or cyclization) is thermodynamically favored. Energy landscapes here are for a main duplex length of 30 bp.
