عنوان

Structure and Dynamics of Biopolymers

(Number (ISBN

9400936192

(Number (ISBN

9789400936195

Number

b593157

Title Proper

Structure and Dynamics of Biopolymers

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by C. Nicolini.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(x, 268 pages)

Series Title

NATO ASI series., Series E,, Applied sciences ;, 133.

Text of Note

Dynamics of Polynucleotides as Probed by Interacting Ions and Molecules --; Circular Dichroism as a Probe of Tertiary Structure --; Zeeman Laser Scattering (ZLS): a New Light Scattering Technique --; Structure and Dynamics of Double Helices in Solution: Analysis of DNA Bending by Electro-optical Experiments --; NMR Studies of Loopfolding in a DNA Hairpin Molecule --; Structure and Function in Nucleic Acids: Mutagenesis --; The Structure and Physical Chemistry of Cruciform Structures in Supercoiled DNA --; Toroidal DNA Condensates; Aspects of Formation, Structures, Dynamics and Biological Implications --; Null-DNA: a Theory of the Elastic Instability and Spontaneous Kinking of DNA with Charge-Neutralized Phosphates --; The Dynamic Structural Fluctuations of Nucleic Acid-Drug Complexes --; The Higher Order Structure and Dynamics of Chromatin-DNA --; On the Behaviour of Ionic Polysaccharides in Dilute Aqueous Solutions --; Gels --; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS --; SUBJECTS INDEX.

Text of Note

This NATO-ASI on BIOPOLYMERS STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS held between 22nd June 4th July 1986 at Erice (Italy) has brought together scientists from a broad variety of biophysical disciplines - polymer physics, biophysics and physical chemistry, structure and dynamics of polynucleotides, proteins, and polysaccharides - to present the current state of knowledge in their fields, both experimental and theoretical. This Advanced Study Institute was indeed a successfull attempt to enhance the possibility of intersection of a number of research lines that currently are progressing well but are still running largely in parallel with one another: protein folding, single-polymer phase transitions, DNA condensation into liquid crystalline-like arrays, packaging in viruses, and polysaccharide gel formation. Although each phenomenon is distinctive, an awareness of similarities may lead to new ic;leas. The program has emphasized "condensed" forms of biopolymers. We are universally confronted in biology by chain polymers folded on themselves or interlinked in gel-like assemblies, whether we look at the native structure of proteins, the role of polysaccharides in connective tissue, or the genetic apparatus. A number of lectures have been devoted to condensed forms of DNA - closed circular supercoils, toruses, chromatin.

Parallel Title

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Italy, June 22-July 4, 1986

Life sciences.

Physical organic chemistry.

edited by C. Nicolini.

C Nicolini

Electronic name

[Book]

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