Properties and Chemistry of Biomolecular Systems: Proceedings of the Second Joint Greek-Italian Meeting on Chemistry and Biological Systems and Molecular Chemical Engineering, Cetraro, Italy, October 1992

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Intrinsic and Environmental Effects on Protomeric Equilibria in the Ground and Excited Electronic States of Biological Systems....Pages 1-18
Ternary Complexes of Pt(II) and Pt(IV) with Aminoacids and Nucleobases....Pages 19-22
Free Radicals in Biological Systems....Pages 23-30
The Role of Oxygen in Radiolysis of Aqueous Solutions of Magnesium Guanosine-5’-Monophosphate Complexes....Pages 31-36
Interaction of Alkaline and Alkaline-Earth Metal Ions with Nucleosides....Pages 37-47
Thermal Behaviour of Three Ribonucleases....Pages 49-65
Denaturation of Biological Macromolecules: New Programs for the Deconvolution of DSC Measurements....Pages 67-78
Solvent Effects on the Molecular Organization and Properties of Biological Systems....Pages 79-91
Superstructural Informations in the Base Sequences of Nucleic Acids....Pages 93-108
DNA Superstructures: Relevance on Physicochemical Properties and in Recognition Mechanism with Proteins....Pages 109-126
Redox and pH-Sensitive Polymer-Grafted Membranes: Thermodynamic Characteristics in Drug Delivery....Pages 127-141
Iron-sulfur Proteins: Part II Valence-specific Assignment in Oxidized Hipip through 1 H NMR Spectroscopy....Pages 143-157
Chlorophyll a Molecular Organization and Photoreactivity....Pages 159-174
Biocompatible Catalysis of Polyene Polymers by Manganese (III) Porphyrins....Pages 175-185
Engineering of Bovine Seminal Ribonuclease: Expression of the Secreted Recombinant Protein....Pages 187-192
Membrane Operation in Biochemical Processing....Pages 193-204
The Conformational Properties of (-)-Dolastatin 10, a Powerful Antineoplastic Agent....Pages 205-209
 In Vitro Solubilization of a Recombinant Elongation Factor Tu, Carrying the Asp138Asn Mutation....Pages 211-217
Search for Preparing Antibiotics Active Against Resistant Strains of Bacteria and Wider Spectrum of Activity....Pages 219-232
The Mutagenic Heterocyclic Amines in Cooked Foods....Pages 233-242
On the Possible Structure-Activity Relationships in the Food Mutagen Imidazoquinoxaline (IQx) Series....Pages 243-247
Elongation Factor Tu, a Model Protein for Studying Structural-Functional Relationships and Regulatory Mechanisms....Pages 249-266
Hybrid Antibiotics: Aminoglycoside 3-Quinolone or β-Lactam Amides....Pages 267-270
Complexes of Dirhodium Trifluoroacetate with Nucleosides and Nucleotides....Pages 271-275
Synthesis of Amino Acid and Peptide Derivatives of Aminoglycosides Targeted Against Resistance of Bacteria....Pages 277-280
Fusion and Aggregation of Phospholipid Vesicles: Experimental Problem of The Distinction....Pages 281-289
A Molecular Dynamics Study of Tyr-DAla-Phe-Gly-NH2 and of its 18-crown-6-ether Complex. A Model µ-Opioid Peptide and its Interaction with a Simulated Receptor Site....Pages 291-299
Subunit Assembly in Bovine Seminal Ribonuclease....Pages 301-312
Conformational Studies in Solution on Cyclolinopeptide A Analogs. A Two-D NMR Study of cyclo{Pro 1 -Pro-phe-Phe-Ac6c-Ile-ala-Val 8 }....Pages 313-319
Homogeneous Catalytic Hydrogen Formation Using Dinuclear Multiply Bonded Complexes of Molybdenum (III) and Tungsten (III) and LowValency Metal Ions, M=Cr(II), V(II), in Aqueous Acidic Solutions....Pages 321-329
A Theoretical Study on the Protonation of Nucleic Acid Pyrimidine and Purine Bases....Pages 331-351
Phosphorylation of an Overexpressed Yeast Ras2 Protein During the G1 Phase of the Cell Cycle....Pages 353-361
Effect of Isomerism at Non-leaving Ligands in Platinum Anticancer Drugs....Pages 363-368
A Photochemical Approach to Study the Antimitotic-Drugs Tubulin Interaction....Pages 369-379
A QSAR Model of the Isoelectric Points and of the Atomic Charges of Amino Acids....Pages 381-387
On the Molecular and Supramolecular Structure of Elastin....Pages 389-403
Conformational Analysis of Dolavaline, Dolaisoleuine, Dolaproine and Dolaphenine Unusual Amino Acids....Pages 405-413
Back Matter....Pages 415-419