By Thomas E. Creighton
The twenty-one chapters of this quantity current a finished description for chemists, biologists and scholars of the elemental actual and chemical phenomena that shape the foundation of molecular biology. themes contain the elemental thermodynamic and kinetic houses of biochemical reactions in resolution; the actual homes of aqueous strategies, together with the hydrophobic impact; either person and cooperative noncovalent interactions among atoms and molecules; mass spectrometry; and radioactivity. equipment for looking at the constructions of nucleic acids and proteins, together with microscopy, scanning probes, crystallography and NMR, are defined intimately. The interactions of macromolecules with radiation of varied forms are defined when it comes to the data that they yield. The hydrodynamic houses of proteins and nucleic acids in aqueous answer and in molecular sieves are defined to give an explanation for centrifugation and electrophoresis. The interactions of macromolecules with different molecules in answer and while connected to sturdy helps are defined, explaining chromatography, blotting, affinity labeling, and cross-linking.
desk of Contents
Section 1. basics 1. Thermodynamics for Molecular Biology
2. Noncovalent Interactions among Atoms and Molecules
three. Aqueous strategies
four. Kinetics: a short evaluation
five. Isotopes and Radioactivity
6. Mass Spectrometry
Section 2. Visualizing Macromolecules 7. Scattering of Radiation via Molecules
eight. Microscopy and Scanning Probes
Section three. Spectroscopy 10. Absorption and Emission of sunshine
eleven. round Dichroism
12. Vibrational Spectroscopy
thirteen. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
14. Electron Magnetic/Paramagnetic/Spin Resonance
Section four. shipping in resolution 15. Hydrodynamics: routine of Molecules in answer
sixteen. Sedimentation by way of Centrifugation
18. Molecular Sieves: Gel Filtration/Size Exclusion Chromatography
Section five. Interactions among Molecules 19. Ligand Binding
21. Interactions of Immobilized Macromolecules
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