Supramolecular Structure and Function

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Potential Energy Functions for Structural Molecular Biology

   • Shneior Lifson

   Pages 1-44

3. Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Protein Folding

   • Harold A. Scheraga

   Pages 45-58

4. Some Aspects of the Macromolecular Chemistry of Carbohydrate Polymers

   • Vittorio Crescenzi

   Pages 59-93

5. Hydration and Interactions in Aqueous Solutions of Ions and Molecules

   • Felix Franks

   Pages 95-126

6. Biomembranes

   • Derek Marsh

   Pages 127-178

7. X-Ray and Neutron Small-Angle Scattering on Plasma Lipoproteins

   • Peter Laggner

   Pages 179-203

8. Structure and Dynamics of Human Plasma Lipoproteins

   • Louis C. Smith, John B. Massey, James T. Sparrow, Antonio M. Gotto Jr., Henry J. Pownall

   Pages 205-244

9. Crystallographic Studies of the Protein Biosynthesis System

   • Anders Liljas, Marie Leijonmarck

   Pages 245-273

10. Hemoglobin Oxygen Binding, Erythrocyte Shape Transformations, and Modeling of Cell Differentiation as Examples of Theoretical Approaches in Studying the Structure-Function Relationship in Biological Systems

    • Saša Svetina

    Pages 275-308

11. Evolution of Polynucleotides

    • Peter Schuster

    Pages 309-356

12. Back Matter

    Pages 357-365

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The molecular basis of life has been a rapidly growing field of science. There is perhaps no other field where such diverse profiles of scientists, ranging from applied mathematicians and theoretical physicists to experimental biologists and medical doctors (physicians), are compelled to communicate and even to col­ laborate. This diversity makes the exchange of information richer but at the same time more cumbersome. One way to facilitate the exchange of information and to overcome the barriers between the different languages used by physicists, chemists and biologists is to organize a meeting on a subject of common interest. A par­ ticularly suitable form of such a meeting for younger scientists is a school at an undergraduate or postgraduate level. This volume contains a collection of lectures presented at the International Summer School in Biophysics, held under the title "Supramolecular Structure and Function" in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, in September 1981. The topics discussed at the school were inter- and intramolecular interactions in biological systems, and structure, organization and function of biological macromole­ cules and supramolecular structures. Although not all the lectures could be prepared in a written form on time for publication, we hope that the present volume contains valuable up-to-date infor­ mation on various aspects of the molecular basis of life. We wish to express our gratitude to the eminent authors and to state that, having received so much valuable assistance from them, we as editors can only attach our names to apologies for any erro~s that may remain.

• X-ray
• biology
• biomembrane
• biophysics
• biosynthesis
• chemistry
• erythrocyte
• lipoprotein
• membrane
• molecular biology
• molecule
• oxygen
• protein
• proteins
• synthesis

• Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

  Greta Pifat

• University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

  Janko N. Herak

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