MECHANICS AND ENERGETICS OF BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT

By X. JANAY

CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 STRUCTURAL, PHYSICAL, AND CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES PART I THE EXPERIMENTAL TOOLS OF MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS 3 OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES 4 DIFFRACTION AND SCATTERING BY X-RAYS AND NEUTRONS 5 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 6 ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 7 MASS SPECTROMETRY 8 SINGLE-MOLECULE METHODS PART II BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES AS MOLECULAR MACHINES: THREE EXAMPLES 9 HELICASE UNWINDING AT THE REPLICATION FORK 10 ROTARY MOTOR ATPASES 11 BIOPHYSICAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE ACTION OF MYOSIN AS A MOLECULAR MACHINE PART III FUTURE PROSPECTS 12 FUTURE PROSPECTS