Statistical Mechanics and Stability of Macromolecules Application to Bond Disruption, Base Pair Separation, Melting, and Drug Dissociation of the DNA Double Helix
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Macromolecular stability
- 3 Lattice dynamics
- 4 Effective phonon theory
- 5 Premelting disrupted chemical bonds
- 6 Cooperative melting
- 7 Strained chemical bonds: salt and pressure effects
- 8 Bond disruption and conformation change: B to Z conformation change in DNA
- 9 Hydration effects: structural water
- 10 Helix with daunomycin intercalated: increased helix stability and daunomycin-DNA binding constant
- 11 Nonrepeating DNA
- 12 Cutting and splicing: junctions, inserts, and the replicating fork
- 13 Interaction between a helix and a single attached molecule
- 14 Energy considerations in bond opening
- Appendix 1 Helical lattice dynamics
- Appendix 2 Density matrix and effective phonon theory
- Appendix 3 Green functions
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Macromolecular stability
- 3 Lattice dynamics
- 4 Effective phonon theory
- 5 Premelting disrupted chemical bonds
- 6 Cooperative melting
- 7 Strained chemical bonds: salt and pressure effects
- 8 Bond disruption and conformation change: B to Z conformation change in DNA
- 9 Hydration effects: structural water
- 10 Helix with daunomycin intercalated: increased helix stability and daunomycin-DNA binding constant
- 11 Nonrepeating DNA
- 12 Cutting and splicing: junctions, inserts, and the replicating fork
- 13 Interaction between a helix and a single attached molecule
- 14 Energy considerations in bond opening
- Appendix 1 Helical lattice dynamics
- Appendix 2 Density matrix and effective phonon theory
- Appendix 3 Green functions
- References
- Index
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- Statistical Mechanics and Stability of MacromoleculesApplication to Bond Disruption, Base Pair Separation, Melting, and Drug Dissociation of the DNA Double Helix, pp. 223 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995