04563nam a2200421Ia 4500 202477 BIBL 20160527193418.0 921006s1993 flua b 001 0 eng 92035658 0849375703 DLC DLC TMV AGL CUX PUXA QP535.H1 W365 1993 QP535.H1W365 1993 X300 P200 574.19/212 20 QU105 W36 1993 Water and biological macromolecules edited by Eric Westhof. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 1993. xiii, 466 p. ill. 25 cm. Topics in molecular and structural biology Local 180341 Includes bibliographical references and index. Water -- Water structure -- Structure determination: diffraction studies -- Liquid water -- Ice polymorphs -- Small crystal hydrates -- Structural regularities between water molecules -- Water structure around biological molecules -- Thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water -- Density and isothermal compressibility of liquid water -- Dynamic properties -- Rotational correlation times and the lifetime of hydrogen bonds in water -- Aqueous solutions of simple hydrophobic solutes -- Proteins -- Hydration of amino acids in protein crystals -- Methods -- Results -- Water structure of crystallized proteins: high resolution studies -- Crystallographic methods -- Other methods -- Hydration of protein secondary structures: the role in protein folding -- Hydration of alpha-helices -- Hydration of 3₁₀ helices and reverse turns -- Hydration of b-sheets. (cont) Nucleic acids -- Molecular dynamics simulations on the hydration, structure and motions of DNA oligomers -- MD simulation -- MD studies on prototype systems -- MD studies on DNA in vacuo -- MD studies on DNA with solvent -- Restrained MD and refinement -- MD studies of DNA variants and complexes -- Brownian dynamics simulations -- Structural water bridges in nucleic acids -- Hydration around phosphate groups -- 5'-phosphate-water-base bridges -- 3'-phosphate-water-sugar bridges -- 3'-phosphate-water-base bridges -- Other phosphate-wate-base bridges -- Other phosphate-water-sugar bridges -- Sugar-water-base bridges -- Base-water-base bridges -- Hydration sites and hydration bridges around DNA helices -- Hydration site approach -- Monte Carlo calculations -- Light scattering spectroscopy studies of the water molecules in DNA -- Raman and Brillouin spectroscopies -- Structure of DNA hydration shell studied by Raman spectroscopy -- Dynamics of DNA hydration shell studied by Brillouin spectroscopy. (cont) Polysaccharides and lipids -- Polysaccharide interactions with water -- Analysis of the structural methods -- Water location in crystalline polysaccharides -- Water in the crystalline polymorphism of polysaccharides -- Difficulties and limits of water location in crystalline polysaccharides -- Role of structural water molecules in protein-saccharide complexes -- Periplasmic binding proteins: complexes with monosaccharides and disaccharides -- Enzymes -- Lectins -- Lipid hydration -- Lipids -- Sources of lipid hydration -- Temperature effects -- Ion and solute effects -- Modelling lipid-water interactions -- Consequences of lipid hydration -- Lipid aggregation in water -- Hydration force -- Relevance of lipid hydration -- Thermodynamics -- Hydration forces -- Theory -- Negative interfacial tensions and polar repulsion -- Quantitative expression of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity -- Hydration orientation -- Consequences and examples of hydration forces -- Solvation forces in non-aqueous media. (cont) How specific interactions overcome hydration forces -- Solvation thermodynamics of biopolymers -- Definitions -- Ingredients of (delta)Ga -- Some illustrative numerical examples -- Critique of the group additivity assumption for the solvation Gibbs energy -- Examples of biochemical processes affected by solvation -- Solvation and structural changes in the solvent. Water in the body. Local 187419 Biochemistry Local 62380 Biopolymers Local 62494 Body Fluids Local 63438 Water Local 187410 Water of hydration. Local 187424 Biochemistry Local 62380 Biopolymers Local 62494 Westhof, Eric. Local 188446 Topics in molecular and structural biology (Boca Raton, Fla.) 151740 151740 0 0 lc 0 QP_535_000000000000000__H1_W365_1993 0 mbl 206830 12 12 20 2016-05-27 125.00 294687 0 QP535 .H1 W365 1993 50000001830537 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:202477 z:NCC:D 6