Conformation in Biology
R. Srinivasan & Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Preface
Forward by Linus Pauling
G. N. Ramachandran
Peptides & Proteins: Conformation, Interactions and Function
Interactions Between the Fundamental Structures of Polypeptide Chains
Harold A. Scheraga, Kou-Chen and George Némethy
Dynamic
β-Spiral and a Librational Entropy Mechanism of Elasticity
Dan W. Urry, C. M. Venkatachalam, M. M. Long and K. U. Prasad
X-Ray Studies of the Protein Dynamics of Prealbumin
C. C. F. Blake and S. J. Oatley
Rotational Solutions in Folded Polypeptide Chains
Anthony A. Ribeiro, Roy King and Oleg Jardetzky
Protein as an Edited Statistical Copolymer?
Oleg B. Ptitsyn
Order Versus Regularity in Globular Proteins
A. M. Liquori
Lysozyme Structure: Why Still Work on it?
Raghupathy Sarma
The Three-Dimensional Structure of Calotropin DI, a Sulfhydryl Protese with Unusual Properties
Gour P. Pal, Rolf Hilgenfeld, Wolfram Saenger and Udo Heinemann
Conformational Flexibilities of Some Polypeptide Helices and Disulphide Bridged Peptides
R. Chandrasekaran and Alok K. Mitra
Conformational Criteria for, and Consequences of Proline Hydroxylation in Collagen
V. S. Ananthanarayanan
g-Helix at Atomic Resolution
E. Subramanian and V. Lalitha
Peptide Conformation: Variability and Uniqueness
Isabella L Karle and Jerome Karle
Stereochemically Constrained Peptides: Model Systems for the Study of Peptide Conformations
B. V. Venkataram Prasad and P. Balaram
Conformational Variety in Cyclic Pentapeptides
C. Ramakrishnan and B. N. Narasinga Rao
Some Aspects of Synthetic Bicyclic Peptides
Mark A Staples, John C. Tolle and Elkan R. Blout
Helical Structures of Gramicidin A and Their Role in Ion Chanelling
Yu. A. Ovchinnikov and V. T. Ivanov
Solid State Aggreagation of Amino Acids and Peptides: Some Biological Implications
M. Vijayan
The Nature and Size of the Binding Sites of Blood Group Specific, L-Fucose-Binding Lectins: A Conformational Approach
V. S. R. Rao and Margaret Biswas
Nucledic Acids: Conformation, Interactions and Function
The Stereochemical Concepts of Nucleic Acids
M. Sundaralingam
Structural Correlations in B-DNA
Richard E. Dickerson, Mary L. Kopaka and Horace R. Drew
Evolution of Nucleic Acid Conformation: The Rational for the Presense of 3'5' and the Absense of 2'5' Internucleotide Linkage
Ramaswamy H. Sarma and M. N. Dhingra
Reciprocal Conformational Relationships of 2'5' and 3'5' Polynucleotides: Single Stranded Helices of 2'5' Polynucleotides
R. Parthasarathy, M. Rajeswaran, T. Kieber-Emmons and R. Rein
Hydrogen Bonding in Nucleic Acid Bases, Their Derivatives and Complexes
S. K. Mazumdar, P. Thomas Muthiah and S. Chandhuri
Intercalation of Anions Between Nucleic Acid Bases: An Analysis of the Type of Intercalation and Their Stereochemistry as Observed in Crystal Structures
T. Srikrishnan and R. Parthasarathy
Structural Studies of Polyamines and Their Interactions with Nucleic Acids
Vasantha Pattabhi and K. Chandrasekhar
From Nucleotides to Nucleosomes Stereochemical Approaches to Probe the Adaptability of the Backbone Conformations in Nucleic Acids
N. Yathindra, S. Jayaraman and R. Malathi
The Role of Stacking in Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions
N. Vasant Kumar and Girjesh Govil
Flexibility of the Duplex DNA: Implications of the Medium Resolution Crystal Structure Analysis of Oligonucleotides
Shashidhar N. Rao and V. Sasisekharan
Aspects of the Macromolecular Structure of Polymorphic DNA
Bernard Pullman and Alberte Pullman
Chain Statistics with Irreducible Tensors: Application to Double Stranded DNA
Stuart A. Allison and John A. Schellman
X-Ray Crystallography and Molecular Structure
On the Fusion of Direct Methods with Isomorphous Replacement and Anomalous Dispersion and Potential Application to the Determination of Macromolecules Structures
Herbert Hauptman
The Representation of Non-Normal Probability Distributions of Structure Factors
U. Shmueli and A. J. C. Wilson
DIRDIF: Computaional and Statistical Aspects of Direct Methods Applied to Difference Structure Factors
Paul T. Beurskens, W. P. Bosman, H. M. Doesburg, Th. E. M. van den Hark, P. A. J. Prick, J. H. Noordik, Gezina Beurskens, R. O. Gould and V. Parthasarathi
Solution of the X-Ray Phase Problem in Non-Centrosymmetric Crystals by Anomalous Scattering
S. T. Rao
Measurability of Bijvoet Differences in Macromolecular Crystals
S. Parthasarathy and D. Velmurugan
Studies on Structure of Morellin
Gopinath Kartha and Gopala Ambady
Monovalent Cation Binding to High Energy Phosphates: X-Ray Study of Monopotassium and Monosodium Salts of Phosphoenolpyruvate
M. A. Viswamitra, M. V. Hosur and S. K. Katti
Steric Factors in the Spatial Structure Crystalline Form of Isotactic Polystyrene
Y. T. Thathachari and W. A. Tiller
A Low Density, Solvent Stabilized Crystalline Form of Isotactic Polyetyrene
P. R. Sundararagan
Protein Crystallography in Osaka
Masao Kakudo
Biography and Bibliography: G. N. Ramachandran
R. Srinivasan
Subject Index
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