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1. Frontmatter I
2. PETER HEMMERICH VII
3. PREFACE IX
4. CONTENTS XI
5. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS XV
6. SECTION I. MOBILITY OF BIOPOLYMERS
7. SPECIFICITY OF CATALYSIS BY FLAVOPROTEINS 1
8. FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FLEXIBILITY IN PROTEINS 21
9. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS AS REFLECTED BY ISOTOPE EXCHANGE KINETICS 49
10. SELF-ORGANIZATION OF OLIGOMERIC PROTEINS 67
11. INTERCONVERSIONS BETWEEN [4Fe-4S] AND [3Fe-3S] CENTRES IN DESULFOVIBRIO GIGAS FERREDOXINS 83
12. DYNAMICS AT THE PROTEIN SURFACE 103
13. ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS OF CELL SURFACE PROTEINS BY TIME-RESOLVED PHOSPHORESCENCE ANISOTROPY 119
14. SECTION II. INTERACTION OF PROTEINS WITH PROTEINS, NUCLEIC ACIDS AND LIPIDS
15. DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN ASSOCIATION REVEALED BY ANISOTROPY DECAY MEASUREMENTS 137
16. DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF ANTIBODY FUNCTION 155
17. FLEXIBILITY IN CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS 173
18. HISTONE-HISTONE AND HISTONE-DNA INTERACTIONS IN CHROMATIN 195
19. QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO THE AUTOGENOUS REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION 213
20. DYNAMICS OF GENE REGULATION IN THE O_R/O_L CONTROL SYSTEM OF BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA 237
21. SPECIFICITY AND LIPID BINDING SITE OF BOVINE PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE TRANSFER PROTEIN 253
22. SECTION III. MECHANISMS OF RECOGNITION IN NUCLEIC ACIDS
23. ALLOSTERIC DNA 267
24. LEFT-HANDED Z DNA IN POLYTENE CHROMOSOMES 281
25. LOCATION AND RECOGNITION OF SPECIFIC DNA BINDING SITES BY PROTEINS THAT REGULATE GENE EXPRESSION 291
26. HIERARCHIES OF PROMOTER RECOGNITION DISPLAYED BY ESCHERICHIA COLI RNA POLYMERASE 317
27. NITROGEN FIXATION: INTERACTIONS AMONG nif GENES AND THEIR PRODUCTS 335
28. MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF RECOGNITION IN THE RHIZOBIUM - LEGUME SYMBIOSIS 357
29. CALMODULIN AND THE INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM SIGNAL: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CALMODULIN mRNA 375
30. SECTION IV. RECEPTOR-LIGAND BINDING AND TRANSPORT MECHANISMS
31. THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR AND ITS ION CHANNEL 393
32. MODULATION OF CALCIUM IONS FLUXES AS SIGNALS FOR MAST CELLS AND BASOPHILS DEGRANULATION 409
33. RECOGNITION AND SPECIFICITY IN THE INTRACELLULAR TRANSFER OF MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS 429
34. THE ELECTROCHEMICAL PROTON GRADIENT INDUCES DITHIOL-DISULFIDE INTERCHANGE IN TRANSPORT PROTEINS AT BOTH SIDES OF THE MEMBRANE 449
35. SECRETION AND MATURATION OF A LYTIC PEPTIDE: FROM PREPROMELITTIN TO THE FINAL PRODUCT 471
36. SECTION V. CHEMOTAXIS
37. A MODEL FOR THE FLAGELLAR ROTARY MOTOR 485
38. BACTERIAL MOTILITY: ENERGIZATION AND SWITCHING OF THE FLAGELLAR MOTOR 499
39. THE PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE-DEPENDENT CARBOHYDRATE : PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM ENZYMES II, A NEW CLASS OF CHEMOSENSORS IN BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS 517
40. BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS: THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CheB-DEPENDENT MODIFICATION 533
41. A FAMILY OF HOMOLOGOUS GENES ENCODING SENSORY TRANSDUCERS IN E. COLI 551
42. GENETICS OF TRANSMEMBRANE SIGNALING PROTEINS IN E. COLI 563
43. INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS 579
44. SUBJECT INDEX 581
45. Backmatter 587