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Chemical Relaxation in Molecular Biology

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  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Israel Pecht

    1. Department of Chemical Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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  2. Rudolf Rigler

    1. Department of Medical Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 60, Sweden

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Theory and Simulation of Chemical Relaxation Spectra

    • G. Ilgenfritz
    Pages 1-42

  3. Concentration Correlation Analysis and Chemical Kinetics

    • D. Magde
    Pages 43-83

  4. Dynamics of Substitution at Metal Ions

    • D. N. Hague
    Pages 84-106

  5. Dynamics of Proton Transfer in Solution

    • P. Schuster, P. Wolschann, K. Tortschanoff
    Pages 107-190

  6. Elementary Steps of Base Recognition and Helix-Coil Transitions in Nucleic Acids

    • D. Pörschke
    Pages 191-218

  7. Structural Dynamics of tRNA A Fluorescence Relaxation Study of tRNA yeast Phe

    • R. Rigler, M. Ehrenberg, W. Wintermeyer
    Pages 219-244

  8. Chemical Relaxation Kinetic Studies of E. coli RNA Polymerase Binding to Poly [d(A—T)] Using Ethidium Bromide as a Fluorescence Probe

    • T. M. Jovin, G. Striker
    Pages 245-281

  9. Protein Folding and Unfolding

    • F. M. Pohl
    Pages 282-305

  10. Kinetics of Antibody-Hapten Interactions

    • I. Pecht, D. Lancet
    Pages 306-338

  11. Glutamate Dehydrogenase Self-Assembly. An Application of the Light Scattering Temperature-Jump Technique to the Study of Protein Aggregation

    • D. Thusius
    Pages 339-370

  12. Dynamic Aspects of Carrier-Mediated Cation Transport Through Membranes

    • E. Grell, I. Oberbäumer
    Pages 371-413

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 414-420
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The development of an area of scientific research is a dynamic process with its own kinetic equations and its own physical mech­ anism. The study of fast chemical interactions and transformations is such an area, and while it is tempting to draw analogies or to speculate about the simplest model system, the lack of ade­ quately averaged observables is an annoying obstacle to such an undertaking. Sciences suffering from such conditions usually avoid quantitative models, be they primitive or complex. Instead, they prove their point by "case histories". Chemical relaxation kinetics started as an offspring of research in acoustics. In some aqueous ionic solutions anomalous acoustic absorption had been observed. A systematic study traced the cause of this absorption, showing that the covered frequency range and the intensity of the absorption were related in a predictable manner to the rate at which ions can interact and form structures differing in volume from the non interacting species. The step from this experimental observation and its correct, non­ trivial explanation to the discovery that all fast chemical pro­ cesses must reveal themselves quantitatively in the relaxation rate of a perturbed equilibrium state, and that perturbation para­ meters other than sound waves can be used for its exploitation, was made by MANFRED EIGEN in 1954. The foresightedness of K.F.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chemical Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Israel Pecht

  • Department of Medical Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 60, Sweden

    Rudolf Rigler

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