Molecules and Life

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"Konev's book deserves to be read carefully by everyone mterested in using fluorescence as a physical biochemical tooV-Analytical Chemistry
« an excellent review ."-Photochemistry and Photobiology
FLUORESCENCE AND PHOSPHORESCENCE OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS
By S. V. Konev
Laboratory of Biophysics and Isotopes, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR Translated from Russian Translation Editor: Sidney Udenfriend
Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
A comprehensive review of research in problems of electronic excited states in the two principal types of biopolymers-proteins and nucleic acids. The biological role of electronic excited states, the mechanisms which produce them, and the migration and storage of energy in macromolecules are discussed. The author deals with the relationship between the spectral luminescent characteristics of biopolymers and their secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures, and discusses... Tovább

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"Konev's book deserves to be read carefully by everyone mterested in using fluorescence as a physical biochemical tooV-Analytical Chemistry
« an excellent review ."-Photochemistry and Photobiology
FLUORESCENCE AND PHOSPHORESCENCE OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS
By S. V. Konev
Laboratory of Biophysics and Isotopes, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR Translated from Russian Translation Editor: Sidney Udenfriend
Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
A comprehensive review of research in problems of electronic excited states in the two principal types of biopolymers-proteins and nucleic acids. The biological role of electronic excited states, the mechanisms which produce them, and the migration and storage of energy in macromolecules are discussed. The author deals with the relationship between the spectral luminescent characteristics of biopolymers and their secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures, and discusses prospects for using investigations of photoluminescence in biopolymers to gain insight into the physicochemical and structural organization of the living cell at the molecular and supramolecular levels. Biochemists, bio-physicists, protein chemists, and research workers using fluorescent techniques in bioanalysis will find this book an invaluable aid in their work.
CONTENTS: History of research on electronic excited states of proteins • Electronic excited states of monomers • Electronic excited states of proteins • Migration and conservation of energy in the protein macromolecule • Luminescence of nucleic acids and energy migration in them • Luminescence of biopolymers in the cell • Electronic excited states of biopolymers and photobiology • Electronic excited states of biopolymers and dark biology.
204 pages 1967 $12.50
MOLECULES AND LIFE
An Introduction to Molecular Biology
By M. V. Vorkenshtein
Institute of Molecular Biology Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
Translated from Russian by Serge N. Timasheff
Graduate Departnnent of Biochemistry Brandéis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
An introduction to molecular biophysics dealing principally with questions related to the structures and functions of proteins and nucleic acids. Includes material of a descriptive nature as well as rigorous mathematical treatment of various problems. Biologists, physicists, and chemists interested in the theory as well as in practical applications of the field will find the work valuable. It will also be extremely useful as a textbook in advanced-level undergraduate and in graduate courses in molecular biology. The author is internationally recognized as one of the foremost research workers in this area; the translator has a wide reputation for excellence—not only as a translator, but as a brilliant molecular biologist and biochemist in his own right. Vissza