Structure, Dynamics, Interactions and Evolution of Biological Macromolecules: Proceedings of a Colloquium held at Orléans, France on July 5–9, 1982 to Celebrate the 80th Birthday of Professor Charles Sadron

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Left-Handed DNA in Chemical and Biological Systems....Pages 3-21
Theoretical Studies of the Polymorphism and Microheterogeneity of DNA....Pages 23-44
Z-DNA and Chemical Carcinogenesis....Pages 45-56
Initiation of Carcinogenesis: From the Local Structural Change of DNA to the Setting Up of a Mutation....Pages 57-68
Breathing Reactions in Nucleic Acids and Proteins....Pages 69-79
Conformation of Synthetic and Natural Polyelectrolytes....Pages 81-88
DNA Conformation and Folding: From Solution to the Higher Order Structure of Chromatin....Pages 89-100
Higher Orders of Chromatin Structure....Pages 101-112
Structure and Dynamics of Peptide-Nucleic Acid Complexes.....Pages 113-128
Molecular Mechanisms for the Recognition of Nucleic Acids by Proteins. Present-day and Prebiotic Aspects....Pages 129-140
The Lac Repressor. Structure and Interactions....Pages 141-153
Role of Messenger RNA Specific Secondary Structure in the Control of Gene Expression....Pages 155-165
The Organization of Plant Viral Genomes....Pages 167-175
Structure, Evolution and Interactions of Ribosomal RNAs....Pages 177-193
Liposome-Mediated Gene Transfer In Vivo . Uptake and Expression of the Preproinsulin I Gene by Rats and Mice....Pages 195-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Theoretical and Experimental Conformational Analysis of Some Synthetic and Natural Peptides....Pages 209-225
Ligand Binding as a Probe of Protein Dynamics....Pages 227-236
Dynamics of Proteins and of Protein Assemblies....Pages 237-251
Dynamics of Proteins....Pages 253-269
Conformational Fluctuations and Enzymatic Activity....Pages 271-282
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
X-ray and Neutron Scattering Study of Membrane Proteins in Solution....Pages 283-298
Fast Kinetic Spectroscopies: Laser Flash Photolysis and Pulse Radiolysis: Application to the Study of the Structure, the Dynamics and the Interactions of Biological Molecules....Pages 299-310
Fluorescence Decay of Dansylated Yeast 3 Phosphoglycerate Kinase....Pages 311-319
Structure and Conformation of Carbohydrate Chains of N-Glycoproteins in Model Systems....Pages 321-328
Wheat Germ Agglutinin: A Review of Recent Results....Pages 329-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
The Origin and Evolution of Life at the Molecular Level....Pages 353-370
Condensation-Polymerization and Morphogenesis in Aqueous Medium as a Model for the Chemical Evolution....Pages 371-382
Reflections on Molecular Asymmetry and Appearance of Life....Pages 383-394
Topological and Quantitative Relationships in Evolving Genomes....Pages 395-412
Back Matter....Pages 413-415