Molecular Biophysics for the Life Sciences

1. Introduction
Norma M. Allewell, Linda O. Narhi, Ivan Rayment

2. Structural, Physical, and Chemical Principles
Norma M. Allewell, Linda O. Narhi, Ivan Rayment

Part I. The Experimental Tools of Molecular Biophysics

3. Optical Spectroscopic Methods for the Analysis of Biological Macromolecules
Linda O. Narhi, Cynthia H. Li, Ranjini Ramachander, Juraj Svitel, Yijia Jiang

4. Diffraction and Scattering by X-Rays and Neutrons
Ivan Rayment

5. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Thomas C. Pochapsky, Susan Sondej Pochapsky

6. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
John H. Golbeck, Art Est

7. Mass Spectrometry
Igor A. Kaltashov, Cedric E. Bobst

8. Single-Molecule Methods
Paul J. Bujalowski, Michael Sherman, Andres F. Oberhauser

Part II. Biological Macromolecules as Molecular Machines: Three Examples

9. Helicase Unwinding at the Replication Fork
Divya Nandakumar, Smita S. Patel

10. Rotary Motor ATPases
Stephan Wilkens

11. Biophysical Approaches to Understanding the Action of Myosin as a Molecular Machine
Mihály Kovács, András Málnási-Csizmadia

Part III. Future Prospects

12. Future Prospects
Norma M. Allewell, Igor A. Kaltashov, Linda O. Narhi, Ivan Rayment

Keywords: Life Sciences, Biological Techniques, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Biotechnology, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology