Water and Biological MacromoleculesWesthof Water and Biological Macromolecules presents an excellent description of the structural aspects of water molecules around biological macromolecules. Topics discussed include the properties of water in solid and liquid states; proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and lipids; and theoretical approaches for understanding the macroscopic observations and integrating microscopic descriptions. The nature and roles of hydration forces in macromolecular complexation and cell-cell interactions are explained, in addition to phenomena such as entropy-enthalpy compensation and the thermodynamic treatment of water bridging. Water and Biological Macromolecules will be a valuable reference for biophysicists, biochemists, and macromolecular biologists. |
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Page 226
... sugar - base and sugar - sugar interactions are favoured . Further , via varia- tions in torsion angles of the sugar - phosphate backbone and through reorientations of the bases , nucleic acids adapt their structures so that their polar ...
... sugar - base and sugar - sugar interactions are favoured . Further , via varia- tions in torsion angles of the sugar - phosphate backbone and through reorientations of the bases , nucleic acids adapt their structures so that their polar ...
Page 330
... Sugar hydroxyl groups involving oxygens 03 , 04 , 05 and 06 are hydrogen - bound to the amino acids constituting the monosac- charide binding site of the lectin . Sugar atoms O1 ( mannose ) and O2 ( glucose ) are hydrogen - linked to ...
... Sugar hydroxyl groups involving oxygens 03 , 04 , 05 and 06 are hydrogen - bound to the amino acids constituting the monosac- charide binding site of the lectin . Sugar atoms O1 ( mannose ) and O2 ( glucose ) are hydrogen - linked to ...
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... sugar - protein interactions : the saccharide adopts a low - energy conformation , and the sugar residues are bound to the protein exclusively through water molecules . The strong trend of saccharides to satisfy their hydrogen - bonding ...
... sugar - protein interactions : the saccharide adopts a low - energy conformation , and the sugar residues are bound to the protein exclusively through water molecules . The strong trend of saccharides to satisfy their hydrogen - bonding ...
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Water structure | 3 |
Thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water | 45 |
Aqueous solutions of simple hydrophobic solutes | 55 |
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Acta Cryst analysis anionic aqueous atoms B-DNA B-form backbone base pairs Beveridge binding Biochemistry Biochim Biol Biomol Biophys Biopolymers calculations Cevc chain Chem Clementi complex conformation counterions crystal structure crystalline crystallographic d(CGCGAATTCGCG density distance dodecamer electron electrostatic Equation experimental Figure force field free energy function Gibbs energy Goodfellow H-bond helix hydration hydration forces hydration shell hydrogen bonds hydrophilic hydrophobic ice Ih interactions interfacial ions lipid bilayers lipid headgroups liquid macromolecules MD simulation membrane minor groove mJ/m² molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics simulation Monte Carlo neutron diffraction nucleic acids nucleotide orientation oxygen phase phosphate groups phosphatidylcholine phospholipid Phys polar polymer polysaccharides potential refinement region relaxation repulsive residues resolution Saenger side-chains solution solvation solvation Gibbs energy solvent solvent molecules solvent structure ẞ-sheet stability Struct studies surface temperature tion water bridges water molecules water structure Westhof X-ray Z-DNA