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Titin

Force curves taken with a protein molecule composed of repeating Titin
domains tethered to the cantilever. The red curve shows the
experimental data and the purple shows the fits to the worm-like chain (WLC) model.
The contour lengths (Lc) increase as each domain is unfolded.

Data courtesy of J. Clarke, S. Fowler and A. Steward, Cambridge University, UK.