Thermodynamics in biology
By: edited by Enrico Di Cera.
Contributors: Di Cera, Enrico.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Thermodynamics.; Biochemistry.; Thermodynamics.; Biochemistry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: 1. Microscopic basis of macromolecular thermodynamics / Themis Lazaridis and Martin Karplus; title: 2. Thermodynamic dissection of cooperativity in ligand recognition / Thierry Rose and Enrico Di Cera; title: 3. Affinity prediction: the sine qua non / Garland R. Marshall, Richard D. Head, and Rino Regno; title: 4. Electrostatic interactions in proteins and nucleic acids: theory and applications / Kim A. Sharp; title: 5. Thermodynamics of formation of secondary structure in nucleic acids / Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. and Michael Schmitz; title: 6. The application of thermodymamics to the modeling of RNA secondary structure / David H. Mathews, Joshua M. Diamond, and Douglas H. Turner; title: 7. Conformational fluctuations and protein function: the thermodynamics of a Brownian motor / Carey K. Bagdassarian and R. Dean Astumian; title: Index.