Overview
- Editors:
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Christopher Jones
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National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, UK
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Barbara Mulloy
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National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, UK
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Adrian H. Thomas
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National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, UK
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Table of contents (16 protocols)
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Microscopy
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- Phillip M. Williams, Mana S. Cheema, Martyn C. Davies, David E. Jackson, Saul J.B. Tendler
Pages 25-37
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Scattering And SedimentatioN
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Calorimetric Methods
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Front Matter
Pages 109-109
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- Alan Cooper, Christopher M. Johnson
Pages 109-124
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- Alan Cooper, Christopher M. Johnson
Pages 125-136
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- Alan Cooper, Christopher M. Johnson
Pages 137-150
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Optical Spectroscopy
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Front Matter
Pages 151-151
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- Parvez I. Haris, Dennis Chapman
Pages 183-202
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About this book
This is the second of three volumes of Methods in Molecular Biology that deal with Physical Methods of Analysis. The first of these, Spectroscopic Methods and Analyses dealt with NMR spec troscopy, mass spectrometry, and metalloprotein techniques, and the third will cover X-ray crystallographic methods. As with the first volume. Microscopy, Optical Spectroscopy, and Macroscopic Techniques is intended to provide a basic understand ing for the biochemist or biologist who needs to collaborate with spe cialists in applying the techniques of modern physical chemistry to biological macromolecules. The methods treated in this book fall into four groups. Part One covers microscopy, which aims to visualize individual molecules or complexes of several molecules. Electron microscopy is the more familiar of these, while scanning tunneling microscopy is a new and rapidly developing tool. Methods for determining the shapes and sizes of molecules in solution are described in Part Two, which includes chapters on X-ray and neutron scattering, light scattering, and ult- centrifugation. Calorimetry, described in Part Three, provides the means to monitor processes involving thermodynamic changes, whether these are intramolecular, such as conformational transition, or the interactions between solutes or between a solute and its sol vent. Part Four is concerned with optical and infrared spectroscopy and describes applications ranging from the measurement of protein concentration by UV absorbance to the analysis of secondary struc ture using circular dichroism and Fourier-transform infrared spec troscopy.
Reviews
...a quite fascinating book. It describes a range of techniques with which I am familiar in the literature, but have never actually used and explains the practicalities behind the instrumentation and its use...very readable and informative.-Dave Roberts, Natural History Museum-Society for General Microbiology Quarterly
