. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 27.

Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2020 Sep 16;14(10):13180–13191. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04863

Table 1 |.

Conformation change force (Force, pN), change in extension (ΔX, nm), conformation change rate constant (k_cc, per sec), distance to the transition state (x^†, nm) and conformation change energy barrier (ΔG^†, kcal per mol), for DNA and RNA squares.

	FORCE	ΔX	K_cc	X^†	ΔG^†
DNA	44.2±2.3	2.99±0.03	0.0016±0.0007	0.132±0.008	13.5±0.5
RNA	44.6±4.1	4.1±0.10	0.005±0.0030	0.10±0.020	11.4±1.4