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from the strand-displacement assay was 76 nM. The Co-1 aptamer is the first reported aptamer to follow the Irving-Williams series, although this series is very prevalent in proteins. This aptamer can thus serve as a model system for understanding metal binding by DNA and can also be a general first-row transition metal sensing element.
Wang et al. (Wed,) studied this question.