Upper panel: typical kinetic trace of a second-order solution phase hybridization of a partial hairpin (PH B)

Copyright information:Taken from "Comparative study of sequence-dependent hybridization kinetics in solution and on microspheres"Nucleic Acids Research 2005;33(1):366-375.Published online 14 Jan 2005PMCID:PMC546151.© 2005, the authors © Middle panel: melting curve for PH B showing a linear fit to the upper and lower arms. lower panel: graph of the data above, where the units for the -axis are M, fit to a straight line using a linear regression. The slope of the line corresponds to the second-order rate constant.