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Published on: November 20, 2021
A theoretical method to determine unstressed off-rate from multiple bond force spectroscopy
1University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
Abstract:
Using dynamic force spectroscopy to measure the kinetic off-rates of intermolecular bonds currently requires the isolation of single molecules. This requirement arises in part because no tractable analytic method for determining kinetic off-rates from the rupture of a large number of bonds under dynamic forces is currently available. We introduce a novel method for determining the unstressed off-rate from dynamic force spectroscopy experiments involving a large number of bonds. Using both the Bell and Dembo models we show that the unstressed off-rate calculated using the proposed method is in good agreement with the prescribed unstressed off-rate used in Monte-Carlo simulations of multiple bond dynamic force spectroscopy experiments given initial number of bonds (50-500) and loading rate 10(3)-10(6)pN/s.
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