Biological Macro-Molecules : Structure and Function : Proceedings of Indo-Soviet Binational Symposium

Contents: Editors note. Preface. Foreword. Inaugural address. List of contributors. Members of the organizing committee. I. Conformations and Assembly of macromolecules I: 1. Structure of nucleosomes and chromatin/A.D. Mirzabekov, V.L. Karpov, O.V. Preobrazhenskaya, S.G. Bavy Kin, A.R. Dzherbashayan, V.V. Shick and A.V. Belyavasky. 2. Studies on protein-protein and protein-RNA complexes from E. Coli Rhibosomes/A.T. Gudkov and G.M. Gongadze. 3. DNA attachment to a nuclear skeleton/G.P. Georgiev. II. Conformations and assembly of macromolecules II: 4. Thermodynamic study of protein domain organization/Peter L. Privalov. 5. Conformational studies on a synthetic model for the active site disulfide loop of thioredoxin/A. Ravi and P. Balaram. 6. Hydration properties of DNA molecules/P.K. Ponnuswamy and A. Anukanth. 7. The growth of a yeast sterol auxotroph on cholesteryl alkyl ethers role of hydroxyl group of cholesterol in membranes/S. Nanda Kumari and Anil K. Lala. 8. Electron microscopy of the escherichia coli ribosome/V.D. Vasiliev. III. Genetic engineering: 9. Studies on expression of recombinant plasmids containing PL-OL-N segment λDNA and conferring lethal effect in E. Coli cells/Istvan Fodor, Igor L. Glukhov and Victor V. Soukovatitsin. 10. Molecular cloning and sequencing of potato virus genomes/V.M. Zakharyev, V.S. Bundin, S. Yu. Morozou, J.G. Atabekov, K.G. Skryabin and A.A. Bayev. 11. Interaction of tubulin and colchicine analogues and its use to isolate tubulin mRNA for cloning tubulin gene/Kunal Sen, B. Bhattacharyya and B.B. Biswas. 12. Studies with endonuclease X: A new deoxyendonuclease of E. Coli that preferentially cleaves supercoiled plasmid DNA/Sudhamoy Ghosh and Ujjala Das Gupta. 13. Interaction between phage and host chromosomes/K.P. Gopinathan, Chanchal Sadhu and V. Nagaraja. IV. Biotechnology: 14. The analysis of DNA replicator sequences determining high-frequency transformation of yeast by recombinant plasmids/L.P. Tikhomirova, V.M. Krjukov and N.I. Strizhov. 15. Electron delocalisation during oxidation-reduction cycle of FAD: design and fabrication of a coenzyme immobilised bioanode/Ratna Phadke, H.M. Sonawat and Girjesh Govil. 16. Antiviral activity of nucleases: molecular mechanisms and application/Rudolf I. Salganik. V. Regulatory interactions I: 17. Tumour immunity against a rat tumour by a soluble antigen purified to homogencity/M.R. Das and Pramod K. Srivastava. 18. DNA bindings proteins of eukaryotic cells/G.Shanmugam, A.R. Augustine Rajakumar, T. Premeela and E. David. 19. The association of 30S and 50S subunits to form 70S ribosome may primarily involve RNA-RNA recognition/B.Nag and D.P. Burma. 20. Transcription of drosophila ribosomal RNA genes with and without intervening sequences: run off transcription in isolated nuclei/Radha K. Mandal and Igor B. Dawid. 21. Novel specificities of the sialic acid binding lectin from the horseshoe crab Carcinoscorpius rotundacauda (Guest lecture)/Somasundaran Mohan, Devarajan Thambi Dorai and Bimal Kumar Bachhawat. VI. Regulatory interactions II: 22. Different types repetitive sequences in mouse genome/A.P. Ryskov, D.A. Kramerov, P.L. Ivanov, E.M. Lukanidin and O.P. Samarina. 23. Gene basis for drug metabolism/H. Ravishankar, S. Satyabhama and G. Padmanaban. 24. Studies on RNA synthesis and transport during cardiac hypertrophy: effect of cytosol on RNA transport/C. Rajamanickam, T. Meenakshi, C. Thirunavukkarasu and J. Kamala. 25. Anti-restriction systems in Escherichia coli/K. Dharmalingam, Asha Kamat and P.R. Kannan. VII. Evolution: 26. Analysis of functional domains of hemoglobins over evolutionary time/P.A. Mathew, S. Yashonath, Manohar Furtado and John Barnabas.