1. Edition - May 2008
149.- Euro
2008. 408 Pages, Hardcover
- Monograph -
ISBN-10: 0-470-25818-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-25818-7 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants provides a broad overview of the interaction of DNA with cosolutes in both bulk solution and at interfaces. It provides the basis for understanding the factors leading to complexation between DNA and different cosolutes as well as DNA adsorption at different interfaces. This book also covers DNA-cosolute interactions including simple metal ions, polyelectrolytes, spermine, spermidine, surfactants and lipids, and proteins.

From the contents
Preface.

Contributors.

1 Polyelectrolytes. Physicochemical Aspects and Biological Significance (Magnus Ullner).

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2 Solution Behavior of Nucleic Acids (Rita S. Dias).

Acknowledgments.

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3 Single DNA Molecules: Compaction and Decompaction (Anatoly A. Zinchenko, Olga A. Pyshkina, Andrey V. Lezov, Vladimir G. Sergeyev, and Kenichi Yoshikawa).

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4 Interaction of DNA with Surfactants in Solution (Rita S. Dias, Kenneth Dawson, and Maria G. Miguel).

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5 Interaction of DNA with Cationic Polymers (Eric Raspaud, Adriana C. Toma, Francoise Livolant, and Joachim Radler).

Acknowledgment.

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6 Interactions of Histones with DNA: Nucleosome Assembly, Stability, Dynamics, and Higher Order Structure (Karsten Rippe, Jacek Mazurkiewicz, and Nick Kepper).

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7 Opening and Closing DNA: Theories on the Nucleosome (Igor M. Kulic and Helmut Schiessel).

Acknowledgment.

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8 DNA-DNA Interactions (Lars Nordenskiöld, Nikolay Korolev, and Alexander P. Lyubartsev).

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9 Hydration of DNA-Amphiphile Complexes (Cecilia Leal and Hakan Wennerstrom).

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10 DNA-Surfactant/Lipid Complexes at Liquid Interfaces (Dominique Langevin).

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11 DNA and DNA-Surfactant Complexes at Solid Surfaces (Marite Cardenas and Tommy Nylander).

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12 Role of Correlation Forces for DNA-Cosolute Interactions (Malek O. Khan).

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13 Simulations of Polyions: Compaction, Adsorption onto Surfaces, and Confinement (A.A.C.C. Pais and P. Linse).

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14 Cross-linked DNA Gels and Gel Particles (Diana Costa, M. Carmen Moran, Maria G. Miguel, and Bjorn Lindman)

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15 DNA as an Amphiphilic Polymer (Rita S. Dias, Maria G. Miguel, and Bjorn Lindman).

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16 Lipid-DNA Interactions: Structure-Function Studies of Nanomaterials for Gene Delivery (Kai K. Ewert, Charles E. Samuel, and Cyrus R. Safinya).

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Index.