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| Title: | Biopolymer Research Trends
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| Author: | Tamás S Németh (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600219837 : 9781600219832 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Weight: | .654 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Polymer chemistry |
Biopolymers are a special class of polymers produced by living organisms. Starch, proteins and peptides, DNA, and RNA are all examples of biopolymers, in which the monomer units, respectively, are sugars, amino acids, and nucleic acids.A major but defining difference between polymers and biopolymers can be found in their structures. Polymers, including biopolymers, are made of repetitive units called monomers. Biopolymers inherently have a well defined structure: The exact chemical composition and the sequence in which these units are arranged is called the primary structure. Many biopolymers spontaneously fold into characteristic compact shapes (see also "protein folding" as well as secondary structure and tertiary structure), which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures. Structural biology is the study of the structural properties of the biopolymers. In contrast most synthetic polymers have much simpler and more random (or statistic) structures. This book presents leading-edge research from around the world in this dynamic field.
Preface; Expert Commentary -- Understanding the Structural Bases of Collagen Triple Helix Stability; Research and Review Studies -- Research Progress on Metallothioneins: Insights into Structure, Metal Binding Properties and Molecular Function by Spectroscopic Investigations; A New Method of Internal Structural Analysis of Keratin Fibers Using Raman Spectroscopy; Complex NMR Approaches to Studying Conformational Dynamics of Biopolymers; The FeCO Unit Vibrations as a Probe of the Structure and Dynamics of the Active Site of Heme Proteins: Combined Quantum Chemical, Vibronic and Spectroscopic Study; Volatile General Anesthetic Interactions with Four-a-Helix Bundle Proteins; Effects of Molar Mass on the Coil to Double-Helix Transition of Polysaccharide Gellan Gums in Aqueous Solutions; Raman Signatures of Biopolymers: Diagnosis of Oral Cancers and Inflammatory Conditions; Index
