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Response to Comment on “Remeasuring the Double Helix”
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Response to Comment on “Remeasuring the Double Helix”

Rebecca S Mathew-Fenn, Rhiju Das, Timothy D Fenn, Michael Schneiders and Pehr A. B Harbury
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.325(5940), pp.538-538
07/31/2009
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168876

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Abstract

We measured the mean and variance of end-to-end length in short DNA fragments in solution and reported evidence of DNA stretching that is cooperative over more than two turns of the double helix. Becker and Everaers suggest that the structural fluctuations we observed arise from bending motions of the DNA, rather than stretching. We present three experimental tests of this bending-based explanation.

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