Structure & Motion: Membranes, Nucleic Acids & Proteins
E. Clemeti
G. Corongiu
M. H. Sarma & R. H. Sarma
Preface
Professor Enrico Clementis Address to Pope John Paul II
Pope John Pauls IIs Welcome Address
Part I. Conceptual & Theeoretical Background
Intermolecular Forces: The Glue for any Biomolecular Structure
A. D. Buckingham
Biomolecular Interactions and Stability: Reflections on the Role of Topological Order and Stereodynamic Disorder of Solvent
M. B. Palma-Vittorelli and M. U. Palma
Isomerism of Molecular Complexes and Theoretical Studies of Biomolecules
Z. Slanina
Parallelism in Computational Chemistry: Applications in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics
E. Cle,enti, G. Corongiu, J. H. Detrich, H. Khanmohammadbaigi, S. Chin, L. Domingo, A. Laaksonen and H. L. Nguyen
Part II. Structure & Motion: Cells, Membranes & Proteins
Proteins, Cells and Recognition Sites
I. Giaver & C. R. Keese
Protobiological Selforganization
S. W. Fox
Electrical Aspects of Cellular Reproduction
H. A. Pohl
Structural and Kinetic Properties of Water Near a Charged Membrane Model: A Computer Simulation
M. Marchesi and G. Barabino
Selective Carrier-Induced Transport Processes in Artificial Membranes
W. E. Morf, E. Pretsch and W. Simon
Ultrafast Dynamics in Proteins and Mambranes by Time Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy
E. Gratton and J. R. Lakowicz
Dynamic Properties of Ion Channels and Ion Pumps
P. Luager
Molecular Structures and Liberational Process in Sequential Polypeptides: From Ion Channel Mechanisms to Bioelastomers
D. W. Urry, C. M. Venkatachalam, S. A. Wood and K. U. Prasad
Ligand Binding and Protein Dynamics
H. Fruenfelder
Neutron Spectroscopy and Protein Dynamics
H. D. Middendorf and J. T. Randall
Investigation of Protein Dynamics by Mössbauer Spectroscopy: The Time Dependence of Protein-Specific Motions
F. Parak
Topological Aspects of Conformation Transformations in Proteins: Preferential Pathways of Protein Folding
P. De-Santis, A. Palleschi and S. Chiavarini
Proton NMR Studies of Protein Folding and Unfolding
C. M. Dobson, P. A. Evans and R. O. Fox
Functional Aspects of the Neutral Patterns in Protein Evolution
B. Borstnik and G. L. Hofacker
Metal Ions in Biochemstry
I. Bertini and C. Luchinat
Iron Atom Displacement and Ligand Reactivity in Ferrous Heme Proteins: Effects of Proximal Bond
P. Ascenzi, M. Brunori, M. Coletta and T. G. Traylor
Heuristic Studies of Structure-Function Relationships in Enzymes: Carboxypeptidase and Thermolyson
M. N. Liebman and H. Weinstein
Modeling the Activation Energy and Dynamics of Electron Transfer Reactions in Proteins
A. K. Churg and A. Warshel
Ab-Initio Calculations in the Study of Enzyme Inhibition
C. Thomson, C. Edge and R. Brandt
A Davydov-like Solution in Acetanilide: Experimental Evidence and Biochemical Considerations
G. Caraeri
Part III. Structure & Motion: Nucleic Acids
Further Theoretical Studies of (Nonlinear) Conformational Motions in Double Helix DNA
J. A. Krumhansi, G. M. Wysin, D. M. Alexander, A. Garcia, P. S. Lomdahl and Scott P. Layne
Fluctuationsal Motility of DNA
M. D. Frank-Kamenetskii
Relation of Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics of DNA to the Mechanism of Fidelity and Errors of Nucleic Acid Biosynthesis
V. I. Poltev and V. P. Chuprina
The Binding of Netropsin to Double Helical B-DNA of Sequence C-G-C-G-A-A-T-T-
BrC-G-C-G: Single Crystal X-Ray Structure Analysis
M. L. Kopka, P. Pjura, C. Yoon, D. Goodsell and R. E. Dickerson
Sequential Resonance Assignments in the
1H NMR Spectrum of a lac Operator Fragment by Two-Dimensional NOE Spectroscopy at 500 MHz
R. M. Scheek, R. Boelens, N. Russo and R. Kaptein
Flexibility and Base Composition Dependence of DNA Conformation in Solution from Laser Raman Scattering
W. L. Peticolas and G. A. Thomas
FT-IR Spectroscopic Evidence of C2'-endo, anti, C3'-endo, anti Sugae Ring Pucker in 5'-GMP and 5'IMP Nucleotides and Their Metal-Adducts
T. Theophanides and H. A. Tajmir-Riahi
Lattice Modes, Soft Modes and Local Modes in Double Helical DNA
S. M. Lindsay, J. W. Powell, E. W. Prohofsky and K. V. Devi-Prasad
Some New Results on the Electronic Structure of DNA and a New Possible Long Range Mechanism of Chemical Carcinogenesis
J. J. Ladik
Subject Index
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