Biophysics and Physics of DNA (Stefan University Press Series on Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Physics)

This volume covers: Liquid Crystals and Liquid-Crystalline Dispersions of Circular DNA; Observation and Manipulation of Single DNA Molecules Using Optical Tweezers and Fluorescence Microscopy; Vibrational Spectroscopy of Ligand.DNA Interactions; Imaging of DNA Bases and Oligodeoxynucleotides Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy; Membrane-Motor Based Motility of the Outer Hair Cell and Its Function; Statistical Mechanics Applied to Bond Disruption, Cooperative Melting, and Energy Use in Biomolecules; Theory of the Stark Effect in Protein Systems Containing Electron Donor-Acceptor Couple; Probing the Fast Events of Protein Folding/Unfolding.