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9780198504665

Nature's Robots A History of Proteins

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198504665

  • ISBN10:

    0198504667

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-11-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

- The quest to discover the nature of proteins--themolecules at the heart of all living processes

Author Biography


Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds are both emeritus professors at Duke University. Tanford is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. They live in Easingwold, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(7)
Part I Chemistry
The naming
8(13)
Crystallinity. Haemoglobin
21(8)
The peptide bond
29(13)
Proteins are true macromolecules
42(19)
Bristling with charges
61(15)
Fibrous proteins
76(8)
Analytical imperative
84(12)
Amino acid sequence
96(7)
Subunits and domains
103(5)
Part II Detailed structure
Early approaches to protein folding
108(14)
Hydrogen bonds and the α-helix
122(9)
Irving Langmuir and the hydrophobic factor
131(10)
Three-dimensional structure
141(11)
Part III Physiological function
An ancient and many-sided science
152(12)
Are enzymes proteins?
164(12)
Antibodies
176(12)
Colour vision
188(8)
Muscle contraction
196(14)
Cell membranes
210(12)
Part IV How are proteins made?
The link to genetics
222(14)
After the double helix: the triplet code
236(8)
The new alchemy
244(7)
Notes and references 251(46)
Indexes 297

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