The Physics of Proteins An Introduction to Biological Physics and Molecular Biophysics /

Physics and the life sciences have established new connections within the past few decades, resulting in biological physics as an established subfield with strong groups working in many physics departments. These interactions between physics and biology form a two-way street with physics providing n...

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Main Author: Frauenfelder, Hans. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chan, Shirley S. (Editor), Chan, Winnie S. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
Series:Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1044-8
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505 0 # |a Part I: Biomolecules -- The Hierarchy of Living Things -- Information and Function -- Biomolecules, Spin Glasses, Glasses, and Solids -- Proteins -- Nucleic Acids -- The Genetic Code -- Lipids and Membranes -- Part II: Spatial Structure of Proteins: Measurementand Consequence -- Scattering of Photons for Imaging: Diffraction and Microscopy -- X-Ray Diffraction -- Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Structure Determination in Solution -- The Secondary Structure -- Tertiary Structure of Proteins -- Myoglobin and Hemoglobin -- Part III: The Entergylandscape and Dynamics of Proteins -- Conformational Substates -- The Organization of the Energy Landscape -- Reaction Theory -- Supercooled Liquids and Glasses -- Part IV: Function and Dynamics -- Part V: Appendices: Tools to Study the Physics of Proteins. 
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