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| Title: | Progress in Biopolymer Research
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| Author: | Pablo C Sánchez (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600219845 : 9781600219849 |
| Illustrations: | colour & b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 276 |
| Weight: | .826 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Polymer chemistry |
This book presents new and important research on biopolymers which 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.
Preface; Expert Commentary -- Na + and CI - Enhanced Polymerization of the Opposite-Charged Amino Acids; Research and Review Articles -- Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Biologically Inspired Nanocomposites; Thermodynamics of a B-hairpin to Coil Transition: Application of Free Energy Decomposition and Constraint Theory; Review. Water Soluble and Insoluble Alkylderivatives of Hyaluronic Acid; Biochemical and Biophysical Basis of Genome Folding Mechanisms; A Statistical Mechanics Designed for Biopolymers; Ca-Polygalacturonate as a Useful Model to Study the Interaction of Ions at the Soil-Root Interface: Aluminium as a Case Study; Chemically Modified Silk fibroins for Biomedical Applications; Vibrational Studies; Application of Principles of Optical Anisotropies and Image Analysis to the Investigation of Molecular Packing, Crystallinity, Spatial Organization and Three-Dimensional Topography in Collagen Fibers from Porcine Cornea; Optical Anisotrophy Properties and Structural Characteristics of Wrap-Around Chicken Tendons; Index.
