Structure and dynamics of nucleic acids, proteins, and membranes [proceedings of the International Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids, Proteins and Membranes, held August 31-September 5 1986 in Riva del Garda Italy, under the sponsorship

This volume collects a number of the invited lectures and a few selected contrib­ utions presented at the International Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids, Proteins and Membranes held August 31st through September 5th, 1986, in Riva del Garda, Italy. The title of the conference as well as a number of the topics covered represent a continuation of two previous conferences, the first held in 1982 at the University of California in San Diego, and the second in 1984 in Rome at the Accademia dei Lincei. These two earlier conferences have been documented in Structure and Dynamics: Nucleic Acids and Proteins, edited by E. Clementi and R. H. Sarma, Adenine Press, New York, 1983, and Structure and Motion: Membranes, Nucleic Acids and Proteins, edited by E. Clementi, G. Corongiu, M. H. Sarma and R. H. Sarma, Adenine Press, New York, 1985. At this conference in Riva del Garda we were very hesitant to keep the name of the conference the same as the two previous ones. Indeed, a number of topics discussed in this conference were not included in the previous ones and even the emphasis of this gathering is only partly reflected in the conference title. An alternative title would have been Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Higher Functions, or, possibly, "higher components" rather than "higher functions. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Conformational Analysis of Polypeptides and Proteins for the Study of Protein Folding, Molecular Recognition, and Molecular Design....Pages 1-20 Conformation of Non-Crystalline Proteins Viewed by NMR....Pages 21-29 Structures and Superstructures in Periodical Polynucleotides....Pages 31-49 Conformational Peculiarities and Biological Role of Some Nucleotide Sequences....Pages 51-68 Multifrequency ESR of an Isotopically Enriched Copper System in the Immobilized Phase: A Monte Carlo Approach....Pages 69-74 Neutron Scattering from Agarose Gels....Pages 75-88 Non-empirical Pair Potentials for the Interaction Between Amino Acids....Pages 89-111 Molecular Dynamics of Proteins....Pages 113-126 Proton NMR Studies of Protein Dynamics and Folding: Applications of Magnetization Transfer NMR....Pages 127-137 Distributions and Fluctuations of Protein Structures Investigated by X-Ray Analysis and Mössbauer Spectroscopy....Pages 139-148 Rotational Motions of Tryptophan and Tyrosine Residues in Proteins....Pages 149-151 Protein Fluctuations and Hemeprotein Affinity for Ligand....Pages 153-160 Cytochrome Oxidase in Energy Transduction....Pages 161-167 Proteins and Glasses....Pages 169-177 Global Ab Initio Simulations: Study of A Liquid As An Example....Pages 179-212 Proton Conductivity of Hydrated Lysozyme Powders, Considered Within the Framework of Percolation Theory....Pages 213-218 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecules in Water....Pages 219-238 Low Frequency Coherent Vibrations of DNA: The Role of the Hydration Shell and Phosphate-Phosphate Interactions....Pages 239-250 Elasticity, Structure and Dynamics of Cell Plasma Membrane and Biological Functions....Pages 251-267 Neuronal Signaling. A Simple Thermodynamic Process Involving Complex Membrane Proteins....Pages 269-280 Panel Discussions....Pages 281-300 Physicists Explore Human and Artificial Intelligence....Pages 301-327 Recognition Automata Based on Selective Neural Networks....Pages 329-353 A Neural Theory of Preattentive Visual Information Processing: Emergent Segmentation, Cooperative-Competitive Computation, and Parallel Memory Storage....Pages 355-401 Large-Scale Computations on a Scalar, Vector and Parallel “Supercomputer”....Pages 403-449 Back Matter....Pages 451-455 This volume collects a number of the invited lectures and a few selected contribƯ utions presented at the International Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids, Proteins and Membranes held August 31st through September 5th, 1986, in Riva del Garda, Italy. The title of the conference as well as a number of the topics covered represent a continuation of two previous conferences, the first held in 1982 at the University of California in San Diego, and the second in 1984 in Rome at the Accademia dei Lincei. These two earlier conferences have been documented in Structure and Dynamics: Nucleic Acids and Proteins, edited by E. Clementi and R.H. Sarma, Adenine Press, New York, 1983, and Structure and Motion: Membranes, Nucleic Acids and Proteins, edited by E. Clementi, G. Corongiu, M.H. Sarma and R.H. Sarma, Adenine Press, New York, 1985. At this conference in Riva del Garda we were very hesitant to keep the name of the conference the same as the two previous ones. Indeed, a number of topics discussed in this conference were not included in the previous ones and even the emphasis of this gathering is only partly reflected in the conference title. An alternative title would have been Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Higher Functions, or, possibly, "higher components" rather than "higher functions