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Main Author: Volʹkenštejn, Michail Vladimirovič 1912-1992 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Springer US 1969
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Item Description:This book treats a new, far-from-fully-developed area of molecular biophysics-enzyme physics. An attempt is made to survey this field, but primary consideration is given to three problems under investigation in the Polymer Structure Labaratory of the Institue of High-Molecular Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The first problem is the genetic coding of the biologically functional structure of proteins. Its solution is based on physical theories of hydrophobic interactions. The second problem is the conformational properties of proteins as the factor governing enzyme activity. The most direct methods for experimental investigation of questions in this area are optical, principally those involving natural and magnetic rotation of the plane of polarization. A substantial portion of the book concerns optical activity; the Faraday effect is discussed in an appendix. The third problem is the manifestation of the cooperative properties of enzymes in the kinetics of enzymatic reactions and the solution of complex kinetic problems. This problem is especially pressing in connection with research on allosteric enzymes, which are responsible for feedback in metabolic processes. An appendix describes a new method for solving kinetic problems, based on the theory of graphs. This volume extends and details certain of the ideas expressed in my previous book, Molecules and Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biophysics, which was published in this series in 1965
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 198 p)
ISBN:9781489928344
9781489928368
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4899-2834-4

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