Overview
- Provides an overview of major research themes and research strategies in contemporary molecular biophysics
- Introduces new investigators to major areas of biophysics
- Explains the goals of biophysical research, while offering the tools available for investigation, the relevance of biological research to other fields, and future opportunities in the field
Part of the book series: Biophysics for the Life Sciences (BIOPHYS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Experimental Tools of Molecular Biophysics
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Biological Macromolecules as Molecular Machines: Three Examples
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Future Prospects
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“This valuable work describes the major methods used for characterizing biological macromolecules. The book is very readable and well organized, with 12 succinct chapters. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (J. A. Kelly, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Norma M. Allewell is Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Affiliate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, where she served as Dean of the College of Chemical and Life Sciences for a decade. Her research focuses on protein structure, function and dynamics, and metabolic regulatory mechanisms and diseases.
Dr. Linda Narhi is a Scientific Executive Director in the Product Attribute Science Group at Amgen, where her responsibilities include solution stability assessment of all protein-based therapeutic candidates, and developing and implementing predictive assays for protein stability to process, storage, and delivery conditions.
Dr. Ivan Rayment is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Michael G. Rossmann Professorship in Biochemistry. He has a wide range of interests in structural biology and has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the structural basis of motility, enzyme evolution, cobalamin biosynthesis, and transposition.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Biophysics for the Life Sciences
Editors: Norma Allewell, Linda O. Narhi, Ivan Rayment
Series Title: Biophysics for the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8548-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8547-6Published: 28 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4242-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8548-3Published: 28 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 397
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological Techniques, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biotechnology, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology