HANDBOOK OF MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS

This handbook and reference condenses the biophysics and biomedical contents of the renowned Encyclopedia of Applied Physics in one handy volume. Twenty-eight carefully written overview articles cover the latest research, including single molecule spectroscopy, biosensors and cellular biomechanics. Readers benefit from concise summaries of the fundamentals, methods and applications, backed by detailed tables of contents for quick access, and glossaries of terms, as well as detailed lists of references and further reading.
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Professor Henrik Bohr is Director of the Quantum Protein Centre of the Technical University of Denmark.
Research positions and appointments have taken him to Imperial College in London, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Caltech, the University of Heidelberg and other institutions. His research focuses on theoretical physics, biophysics and biotechnology. A large number of journal publications and books prove his standing in the field.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Color Plates.

Part One Quantum Mechanics Methods for Molecular Biophysics and Electronic Structure Calculations of Biomolecules.

1 Quantum Molecular Biological Methods Using Density Functional Theory (Karl James Jalkanen, Sándor Suhai, and Henrik G. Bohr).

2 Radiationless Auger-Like Electronic Transitions in Biomolecules: Bio-Auger Process. (Henrik G. Bohr and F. Bary Malik).

3 Excited State Dynamics in Biomolecules (Gerrit Groenhof, Lars V. Schäfer, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, and Michael A. Robb).

4 Electron Interactions and Currents in CFT, a Current Functional Theory Applied to Molecules (Jens N. Bang, Henrik G. Bohr, and Joao da Providencia).

5 Exploring Excited State Processes in Photosynthesis – Features of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting (Villy Sundstrom).

Part Two Studies of Motions of Biomolecules and Molecular Dynamics Calculations.

6 Optical Tweezers Techniques (Lene B. Oddershede).

7 Protein Dynamics – Concepts and Experimental Tools (Hans Frauenfelder).

8 Molecular Dynamics Computations for Proteins: A Case Study in Membrane Ion Permeation (Igor Vorobyov and Toby W. Allen).

9 Dynamics of Individual Muscular Protein Molecules (Bjørn Gilbert Nielsen).

Part Three Biomolecular Structures and Dynamics in Proteins, Lipids, and DNA.

10 Protein–Lipid Interactions in Biological Membranes (Claus Helix Nielsen).

11 DNA Biomechanics (Wilma K. Olson, Annankoil R. Srinivasan, Andrew V. Colasanti, Guohui Zheng, and David Swigon).

12 Models of Membrane Fusion (Sylvio May).

Part Four Radiation and Spectroscopy Methods in Molecular Biophysics.

13 Raman Spectroscopy in Virus Structure Analysis (Daniel Němeček and George J. Thomas, Jr).

14 X-Ray Methods for Investigation of Structures of Lipid Assemblies (Huey W. Huang and Lin Yang).

15 The Use of Microwaves in Molecular Biophysics (Henrik G. Bohr, Mogens H. Jacobsen, and I.B. Laursen).

Part Five Neurobiophysics and Ion Channels.

16 Neurobiophysics (Oleg V. Kolomytkin and Andrew A. Marino).

17 Ion Channels (Olaf S. Andersen, Helgi I. Ingólfsson, and Jens A. Lundbæk).

18 Physical Properties of Biological Membranes (Thomas Heimburg).

Part Six Techniques for Detecting Molecular Structures down to the Single Molecule Level.

19 Chiral Raman and Single Molecule Spectroscopy (Salim Abdali and Ewan W. Blanch).

20 Single Molecule Biophysics with Fluorescence (Michael Prummer and Christian Huebner).

21 Biorheology (Rudolf Dietrich Bauer and Tilmann Volk).

22 Lipid Membrane Technology (Luis A. Bagatolli).

Part Seven Physical Effects in Biomolecules and larger Organic Systems.

23 Biological Effects of Electromagnetic and Particle Radiation (Jürgen Kiefer).

24 Biological Effects of Sound and Ultrasound (Wesley L. Nyborg).

25 Biosimulation and Computations in Systems Biology (Olga Sosnovtseva, Jakob L. Laugesen, and Erik Mosekilde).

26 Organic Superconductors (Claus Schelde Jacobsen).

Part Eight Molecular Biophysics Applications in Medicine.

27 Biomedical Imaging Technologies (William R. Hendee and Anthony B. Wolbarst).

28 Raman Spectroscopy in Medicine (Christoph Krafft, Petra Rösch, and Jürgen Popp).

Index.