Thermodynamic Theory of Site-Specific Binding Processes in Biological Macromolecules

Monograph on important subject in biochemistry and biophysics.

Enrico Di Cera (Author)

9780521619752, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 February 2005

316 pages, 93 b/w illus. 23 tables
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.57 kg

This book provides the first systematic treatment of the thermodynamic theory of site-specific effects in biological macromolecules. It describes the phenomenological and conceptual bases required to allow a mechanistic understanding of these effects from analysis of experimental data. The thermodynamic theory also results in novel experimental strategies that enable the derivation of information on local, site-specific properties of a macromolecular system from analysis of perturbed global properties. The treatment focuses on binding phenomena, but is amenable to extension both conceptually and formally to the analysis of other cooperative processes, such as folding and helix–coil transitions. This book will interest any scientist involved in structure–function studies of biological macromolecules, or as a text for graduate students in biochemistry and biophysics.

Preface
1. Statistical thermodynamic foundations
2. Global binding processes
3. Local binding processes
4. Specific cases and applications
5. Site-specific effects in Ising networks
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics [PNRW]