Structure, Dynamics, Interactions and Evolution of Biological Macromolecules :
[Book]
Proceedings of a Colloquium held at Orléans, France on July 5-9, 1982 to Celebrate the 80th Birthday of Professor Charles Sadron
edited by Claude Hélène.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1983
(422 pages)
I. Nucleic Acids. Structures, Dynamics and Associations with Proteins --; Left-handed DNA in chemical and biological systems --; Theoretical studies of the polymorphism and microheterogeneity of DNA --; Z-DNA and chemical carcinogenesis --; Initiation of carcinogenesis: from the local structural change of DNA to the setting up of a mutation --; Breathing reactions in nucleic acids and proteins --; Conformation of synthetic and natural polyelectrolytes --; DNA conformation and folding: from solution to the higher order structure of chromatin --; Higher orders of chromatin structure --; Structure and dynamics of peptide-nucleic acid complexes --; Molecular mechanisms for the recognition of nucleic acids by proteins. Present-day and prebiotic aspects --; The lac repressor. Structure and interactions --; Role of Messenger RNA specific secondary structure in the control of gene expression --; The organization of plant viral genomes --; Structure, evolution and interactions of ribosomal RNAs --; Liposome-mediated gene transfer in vivo. Uptake and expression of the preproinsulin I gene by rats and mice --; II. Protein Structure and Dynamics --; Theoretical and experimental conformational analysis of some synthetic and natural peptides --; Ligand binding as a probe of protein dynamics --; Dynamics of proteins and of protein assemblies --; Dynamics of proteins --; Conformational fluctuations and enzymatic activity --; X-ray and neutron scattering study of membrane proteins in solution --; Fast kinetic spectroscopies: laser flash photolysis and pulse radiolysis: application to the study of the structure, the dynamics and the interactions of biological molecules --; Fluorescence decay of dansylated yeast 3 phosphoglycerate kinase --; Structure and conformation of carbohydrate chains of N-glycoproteins in model systems --; Wheat germ agglutinin: a review of recent results --; III --; Evolution of Biological Macromolecules --; The origin and evolution of life at the molecular level --; Condensation-polymerization and morphogenesis in aqueous medium as a model for the chemical evolution --; Reflections on molecular asymmetry and appearance of life --; Topological and quantitative relationships in evolving genomes.
Proceedings of a Colloquium held at Orléans, France, July 5-9, 1982