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" Structure and Dynamics of Biopolymers "
edited by C. Nicolini.
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BL
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773163
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b593157
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edited by C. Nicolini.
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Structure and Dynamics of Biopolymers\ edited by C. Nicolini.
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1987
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NATO ASI series., Series E,, Applied sciences ;, 133.
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(x, 268 pages)
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9400936192
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: 9789400936195
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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.
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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.
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Life sciences.
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Physical organic chemistry.
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C Nicolini
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Italy, June 22-July 4, 1986
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