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Determination of In Vitro and Cellular Turn-on Kinetics for Fluorogenic RNA Aptamers
Published on: August 9, 2022
Kinetics of ligand binding to nucleic acids
V B Arakelyan1, S Y Babayan, V I Tairyan
1Yerevan Physics Institute, 2, Alikhanian Brothers Str., Yerevan, 375036 Armenia. arakelv@mail.yerphi.am
Abstract:
Ligand binding to nucleic acids (NA) is considered as a stationary Markov process. It is shown that the probabilistic description of ligand-NA binding allows one to describe not only the kinetics of the change of number of bound ligands at arbitrary fillings but also to calculate stationary values of the number of bound ligands and its dispersion. The general analysis of absorption isotherms and kinetics of ligand binding to NA make it possible to determine of rate constants of ligand-NA complex formation and dissociation.
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