Molecular Orbital Calculations for Amino Acids and Peptides

This volume describes in detail the technique of molecular orbital calculations for biochemistry. The level of presentation will be accessible to biochemists, and biophysicists.

List of contents

1 Theoretical Background.- 2 Theoretical Calculations on Small Amino Acids.- 3 Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA).- 4 The Diaminobutyric (DABA), Delta Aminopentanoic, and Epsilon Aminohexanoic Acids.- 5 Ab Initio Studies of Some Acids and Basic Amino Acids: Aspartic, Glutamic, Arginine, and Deaminoarginine.- 6 Proline.- 7 Taurine and Hypotaurine.- 8 Ab Initio Calculations Related to Glucagon.- 9 The Alpha Factor.- 10 Tight Turns in Proteins.- 11 Some Small Peptides.- 12 Oligopeptides That Are Anticancer Drugs.- Appendix Theoretical Studies of a Glucagon Fragment: Ser8-Asp9-Tyr10.

Summary

This volume describes in detail the technique of molecular orbital calculations for biochemistry. The level of presentation will be accessible to biochemists, and biophysicists.

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Marie Sapse
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9781461271093
• ISBN: 978-1-4612-7109-3
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Illustrations: XII, 178 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics; Biophysik, Biochemie, Physikalische Chemie, Organische Chemie, Biowissenschaften, allgemein, Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenwissenschaften, Life Sciences, Biowissenschaften, Chemie / Biochemie, Physik / Medizin, Pharmazie, Physik / Chemie, Chemie (physikalisch), Physik / Biophysik, C; SCC21001 - Physical Chemistry; SCL14005 - Biochemistry, general; SCP27008 - Biophysics and Biological Physics; aminoacids