Water and Ions in Biomolecular Systems : Proceedings of the 5th UNESCO International Conference / edited by D. Vasilescu, J. Jaz, L. Packer, B. Pullman.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Vasilescu, D.
Other Authors: Jaz, J., Packer, L., Pullman, B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 1990.
Series:Advances in life sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • Water, Ions and Nucleic Acids
  • Structural water of nucleic acids
  • Structure of xenopus laevis 5s rRNA as determined by solution data and computer graphic modeling
  • Ionic effects on DNA electrostatic and elastic stability
  • Copper ions at trace level and DNA functioning: studies performed with 64Cu and 67Cu
  • Z-DNA transconformation: a quantum molecular approach
  • Proteins as counterions of DNA: a new model of nucleoprotamine structure
  • Effect of hydration and metal ions on DNA conformations studied by vibrational spectroscopy
  • Showing-up the Na+ entropy of fluctuations during the DNA thermal transconformation by 23Na NMR: influence of radioprotector cysteamine
  • Water, Ions and Proteins
  • The central helix of calmodulin and homologs
  • Effects of solvent exposure on stability
  • Control of protein kinase C function: an inhibitor study
  • On the structure and elasticity of elastin
  • Structure and dynamics of a -19kD phosphoprotein, amelogenin, from bovine tooth enamel
  • Studies of protein hydration by direct NMR observation of individual protein-bound water molecules
  • A role for molecular motion as a mechanism for the NMR relaxation of water protons in biological systems
  • Effect of collagen crosslinking on collagen-water interaction
  • Proton conductivity in hydrated proteins
  • Evidence for percolation
  • A non-traditional role for water during electron transfer by cytochrome C oxidase
  • Water, Ions and Membranes
  • Ion translocation by the NA, K-pump : correlation between electrogenic events and conformational transitions
  • Theoretical and experimental aspects of the specific association of monovalent ions with lipid bilayer membranes
  • The role of isothermal enthalpy production in coupled solute translocation across the membrane
  • Intracellular spermine modifies neuronal electrical activity
  • Spectroscopic studies on the structure and aggregation of calcium ionophore, A23187
  • Fura-2 imaging of intracellular free calcium dynamics in excitable cells
  • Chemically driven phase separation in black lipid membranes
  • A study of cadmium and calcium transport into a marine unicellular alga
  • Involvement of D2O for H2O substitution in the behaviour of some excitable membranes
  • Miscellaneous
  • Femtosecond dynamics of single electron transfer in aqueous media and mimetic models of bioaggregates
  • Bioelectrochemical properties of glutathione
  • A noise spectrography investigation
  • Taking into account the cell water properties for the cytochemical detection of cations: embedding into melamin after pyroantimonate fixation.