Front Cover; Modern Physical Methods in Biochemistry Part A; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in biochemistry; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory; 3. Biochemistry in vivo; 4. Macromolecules in vitro; References; Chapter 2. Electron spin resonance; 1. Introduction; 2. Nitroxide radical spin labels and spin probes; 3. Biological free radicals; 4. Metal ions; 5. Instrumentation and methodology; References; Chapter 3. Mass spectroscopy; 1. General; 2. Ion metastable studies and MS/MS methodology; 3. Applications; 4. Conclusion; References

Chapter 4. Absorption, circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion of polypeptides, proteins, prosthetic groups and biomembranes1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental aspects of absorption and optical rotation; 3. Circular dichroism and absorption spectra of polypeptide conformations and prosthetic groups; 4. Circular dichroism, absorption and optical rotatory dispersion of biomembranes; 5. Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Protein crystallography; 1. Introduction; 2. Protein crystallographic methods; 3. Recent developments; 4. Acknowledgements; References; Subject Index