Title: The behavior of biological macromolecules /
Authors: Cantor, Charles R.,; Schimmel, Paul R.
Date: 1980
Publisher: W. H. Freeman,
Physical description: 624 pages in various pagings : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: It is a text on the physical properties of biological macromolecules and the physical techniques used to study them.
Contents: Ligand interactions at equilibrium -- Kinetics of ligand interactions -- Regulation of biological activity -- Configurational statistics of polymer chains -- Elementary polymer-chain hydrodynamics and chain dimensions -- Conformational equilibria of polypeptides and proteins: the helix-coil transition -- Conformational equilibria of polypeptides and proteins: reversible folding of proteins -- Nucleic acid structural transitions -- Statistical mechanics and kinetics of nucleic acid interactions -- Tertiary structure of nucleic acids -- Introduction to membrane equilibria and to bilayers
Subject headings (LCSH): Macromolecules.