Membrane Proteins: Structures, Interactions and Models: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Jerusalem Symposium on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry Held [Paperback]

The 25th Jerusalem Symposium represents a most significant highlight in the development and history of these meetings. Living within the decimal system we have celebrated with much pleasure the lath and the 20th Jerusalem Symposia. With this one we experience a feeling of particular satisfaction because 25 years is different from, is more than, two decades and a half. It is a quarter of a century. It seems thus as if we have changed the dimension of our endeavour. In no way do we loose the sense of modesty with respect to the significance of these meetings. For the organizers, however, they do represent a continuity of efforts which we feel happy to have been able to carry out. At this occasion it seems useful to say a few words about the origin of the Jerusalem Symposia and to recall the name of a colleague who played an essential role in their creation and has been a most efficient and devoted co? organizer of the seven first of them. This was Professor Ernst Bergmann, one of the most distinguished founders of Israeli Science and a world famous physico-organic chemist.Electron Crystallography of Membrane Proteins 1.- High-Resolution Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins.- Distinguishing Transmembrane Helices from Peripheral Helices by Circular Dichroism.- High-Resolution NMR of Membrane Proteins: the Example of Bacteriorhodopsin.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Bacteriorhodopsin.- Dynamics of Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Neutron Scattering: Effects of the Environment, Softness and Structure.- What do Neutrons, X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation, Optical pH-Indicators, and Mutagenesis tell us about the Light-Driven Proton Pump Bacteriorhodopsin ?.- From Time-Resolved Difference Spectra to Kinetics, Mechanism, and Thermodynamics in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle.- Arginine 175 is Part of an Anion Binding Site in Bacteriorhodopsin.- Electrostatic Calculations of the pKas of Ionizable Groups in Bacteriorhodopsin.- Dimerization of Glycophorin A Transmembrane Helices:lc+