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List of Structure Participants to the Nato 259 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS TO THE NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON" BIOPOLYMERS STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS" - INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED BIOSTRUCURE 22 JUNE - 4 JULY 1986 F. ABOUL-ELA w. BURKART 315 Hildebrand Hall Biologie & Umwelt, Abt. 81/SU Dept. Chemistry Swiss Federal Inst Reactor Res University of California EIR BERKELEY, CA 94704 USA CH-5303 WURENLINGEN, Switzerland P. ANDER F. CARATOZZOLO Seton Hall University DIBE Department of Chemistry Viale Francesco Causa, 13 SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey 07079 USA 16145 GENOVA, Italy H. BAGCI G. CHIRICO Dept. Medical Biology and Genetics Dipartimento di Fisica Medical Faculty Sezione Stati Aggregati University of Akdeniz Via Ce loria, 16 ANTALYA, Turkey 20133 MILANO Italy R.L. BALDWIN M. DAUNE Department of Biochemistry IBMC - CNRS Stanford University Medical Center 15, rue Descartes STANFORD, CA 94305 USA 07004 STRASBOURG, France J. BENBASAT G. DEMlREL Univ. British Columbia Dept. Chemistry Dept. Microbiology Middle East Technical University Vancouver B.L. ANKARA, Turkey CANADA V6TIW5 C. BENHAM A. DIASPRO University of Kentucky Chair of Biophysics Mathematics Dept. University of Genova College of Arts and Sciences Viale Benedetto XV, 2 Patterson Office Tower 16132 GENOVA, Italy LEXINGTON, Kentucky 40506-0027, USA M. BERTOLOTTO M. DONADONI OMODEO Cattedra di Biofisica Via Degan, 98 Universita' di Genova Roma, Italy Viale Benedetto XV, 2 16132 GENOVA , Italy D. ERIE M. GRATTAROLA The State University of New Jersey DIBE RUTGERS Viale Causa, 13 Department of Chemistry 16145 GENOVA, Italy New Brunswick P.O. Box 939 PISCATAWAY, New Jersey 08854 USA 260 A. ELGSAETER F. HAUGEN Division of Biophysics Institute of Biotechnology Univ. of Trondheim Unit/NTH N-7034 TRONDHEIM-NTN, Norway N 7034 TRONDHEIM-NTH, Norway A. FEIS C.W. HILBERS Laboratorio di Spettroscopia Laboratory of Biophysical Molecolare Chemistry Dipartimento di Chimica Katholieke Universiteit Via Gino Capponi, 9 Toernooiveld 50121 FIRENZE, Italy 6225 ED NIJMEGEN, The Netherlan c. FRONTALI R. JOHNSTON Istituto Superiore di Sanita' Dept. Experimental Pathology Viale Regina Margherita 299 Life Sciences Division 00198 GENOVA, Italy Los Alamos National Laboratory P.O. Box 1663 Mail Stop GUZSK CALIK LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, USA Chemical Eng. dept. Ankara Univ. K. KNUDSEN ANKARA, Turkey Division of Biophysics Univ. of Trondheim P. GERMANO N-7034 TRONDHEIM-NTH, Norway Cattedra di Biofisica Universita' di Genova M. LE BRET 16100 GENOVA, Italy Institute Gustave-Roussy Physiochimie Macromomoleculaire G. GIANNETTI rue Camille Desmoulins Dipartimento di Ingegneria, 9480 VILLEJUIF, France Biofisica ed Elettronica Via F. Causa 13 D.M.J. LILLEY 16145 GENOVA, Italy Department of Biochemistry University of Dundee G. LULECI DUNDEE DD1 4HN, UK Department of Medical BioI. and Genetics C. NICOLINI I Medical Faculty Cattedra di Biofisica University of Akdeniz Facolta' di Medicina ANTALYA, Turkey Unive rsita' di Genova 16100 GENOVA, Italy M. MACCARONE Via San Sisto, 87 B. OZDEN 67100 L'AQUILA, Italy Dept. Biology Middle East Technical University G.S. MANNING ANKARA, Turkey Department of Chemistry Rutgers University S. PAOLETTI P.O. Box 939 Dipartimento Biochimica e Biof. PISCATAWAY, NJ 08854, USA Univ. di Trieste 34127 TREISTE, Italy A.M. MARTINS Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia I. PEPE e Tecnologia Industrial Universita' di Genova Estrada das Palmeiras Dipartimento di Fisica Queluz de Baixo Via Dodecaneso 33 2745 QUELUZ, Portugal 16146 GENOVA, Italy 261 K. MARX L. PIANTONI Department of Chemistry Via Madre Cabrini 9 University of Lowell 20122 MILANO, Italy LOWELL, MA 01854, USA E. PISKIN L. Mc INTOSH Hacettepe University University of Oregon Chemical Eng. Dept. Inst. Molecular Biology P.K. 716 Kiz Hay EUGENE, OR 97403-1229 ANKARA, Turkey USA N. MERT D. PORSCHKE Vice Dean Max-Planck-Institute School of Veterinary fur Biophysikalische Chemie 100. Yil University 34, GOTTIGEN,FRG VAN, Turkey J • D. PUGLISI I. TINOCO Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry 321 Hildebrand Hall University of California University of California BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA BERKELEY, California 94720 USA I. TOBIAS M. ROCCO The State University of New Jersey Jersey Laboratorio di Mutagenesi Department of Chemistry Istituto Nazionale Ricerca Cancro P.O. Box 939 Via Ie Benedetto XV, 19 PISCATAWAY New Jersey 08854, USA 16132 GENOVA, Italy M. SANDVOLD M. TORTONESE Division of Biophysics P.zza G. Verdi, 1/1 Univ. of Trondheim 16121 GENOVA N-7034 TRONDHEIM-NTH, Norway Italy W. SCHREIL Institute of Zooology G. VARANI Univ. Heidelberg Unive rsita' degli Studi di Milano HEIDELBERG, FRG Dipartimento di Fisica Via Celoria 16 D. SCHUMMER 20133 MILANO, Italy Laboratoire de Biochimie Universite' Catholique de Louvain P. PEDERIVA 1, Place Louis Pasteur Universita' di Trento 1348 LOUVAIN-LA NEUVE, Belgium Facolta' di Matematica Via Dosso Dossi S. TAKACI 38110 TRENTO, Italy Ankara University Fen F. Dept. of Chemical Eng. 06100 ANKARA, Turkey T.TANAKA Department of Physics -MIT CAMBRIDGE MA 02139, USA 263 Index A anti 109 bending energies 184 300 A fiber 204 bending fluctuations in DNA 158 A form 2, 108 bending of DNA 73 A-DNA 5 binding 14 A-A 100 birefringent 33 A-A mismatches 105 bisulphite 116 AAF binding to DNA 15 blood serum 64 about a transverse axis 6 Boltzmann distribution 22 about the helix axis 6 bound state 192 acridine rings 10 breathing 12, 13, 23, 158 acrylamide gel 241, 246 breathing reaction 183 acrylamyde 244 bromoacetaldehyde 116 acrylate copolymer gels 241 bulged bases 104 activation enthalpy 21 C-N bond I active genes 219 c-o bonds 3 activity coefficients 225, 227 C-type kinetics 130 adenine amino proton 86 C.T. DNA 197 adenine syn 109 C2' endo 2 alginates 221, 222 C3' endo 2 aminofluorene derivatives 13 C4'-C5' bond 2 amplitude 57, 60 carcinogen 14 antibiotics 19 carrageenan 222 (A-T)n sequences 126 CD parameters of DNA's 10 autocorrelation 75 cells 207, 209, 213 automated analysis 209 chemical structures 189, 222 chloresteric phase ISS B DNA 197 chromatin 206 B form 2 chromatin-DNA 204 B-DNA 1 chromosomal evolution 163 B-DNA 5,194 CIDS 210, 212 B-form 105, 108 circular dichroism 10, 31, 32, 36, 39, 211 100 B nucleofilament 204 circular intensity differential scattering 210 B-type 86 circumferentially wrapped toruses 151 B-type double helix 81 ColE 1 cruciform 119 B-Z-cruciform 126 [Co(NH3)6]3 + 70 B-Z-cruciform equilibrium 123 collective diffusion of polymer network 250 B. subtilis 63 complex polarizability 52 backward scattering angles 63 condensation-decondensation transition 139 bacterial polysaccharides 223 conductivities 226 bacteriophage 161 conformation 101,225 bacteriophage lambda 151 conformational transition 226, 228 Bal31 nuclease 116 copolymer gel 248 base misincorporation 108 core DNA 50 base-base mismatch 98, 105 correlation time 10 beat frequency 57, 58 COSY 81 bending 177 counter-ion 10, 244 bending amplitudes 73 counter-ions 244 264 counterion condensed DNA 154 dye-nucleic acids interaction 18 coupled oscillator model 44, 50 dynamic fluctuations 192 coupled oscillator model of an oligonucleitide 39 dynamic structural 193 covalent bindings II, 23 crankshaft 23 E.coli. chromosomes 1649 critical behavior 252 EB-DNA complexes 7 cross relaxation rate 102 ecoli 63 crosslink 231 EcoRI endonuclease 179 cruciform extrusion 129 EcoRI site II9 cruciform formation 114 elastic instability 169 cruciform kinetics 128 electric dichroism 72 cruciform structures 112, 115 electric dipole moment 39 cyclic AMP 69 electric field 247 electro-optical 66 d[ljATCCTA(T)4TAGGAT[2j 82, 86 electronic paramagnetic resonance 9 dA-dT 153 energy minimization 88 l:>. H 230 enthalpy 206 deoxypolynucleotides 10 entropy 70 deuterium exchange 20 enzymatic cleavage 151 l:>. GO 97 EPR 9 l:>. HO 97 error frequencies 95 l:>. So 97 Escherichia coli 113 diamines 19 EthDi 194 dichroism decay 74 EthDi bound to nucleic acids 197 diethyl pyrocarbonate 116, II9 EthDi-DNA complex 191 diffusion coefficient 6 ethedium bromide 6 digestion 218 ethidium bromide 189,216 DNA 0 29 153 ethidium bromide between base pairs 17 DNA 10, 49, 70, 86, 177, 192,208 ethidium-acridine dimer 189 DNA bending 66, 175 eulerian buckling 171 DNA condensation 70 evolution 164 DNA flexibility 137 exchangeable protons 83 DNA fragments 73 experimental 211 DNA hairpin 78, 86 extrahelical cytosine 105 DNA polymerases 95, 108 extrusion mechanism 128 DNA structure 161 DNA supercoiling 112 fibrosome 206, 216 DNA synthesis 215 first-order decay of base-pairing 2 DNA toroids 72 Flory-Huggins 242 DNA torus cleavage model 142 flow birefringence 54 DNA 'cristallization' 162 fluorescence 191, 196 DNAase 152, 219 fluorescence polarisation anisotropy 5 DNAse digestion 209 formaldehyde 11 DNAase II 152 Fourier analysis 75 DNAse I 217 Fourier transform 78 2D Noe 86 FPA 7 2D NOESSY 106 free energy 95 2D NOESY experiment 103 free energy of binding 95 duplex winding angle 183 free energy of DNA supercoiling 113 dye binding 10 free energy of supercoilng 122 265 freeze-etch electron microscopy 142 intranuclear DNA 216 freeze-etch replica 145 ion competition 138 ionic gels 231, 242, 245 01 209,213,216,217 ionic polysaccharide 122, 221 O.A mismatch 109 ionic selectivity 227 (O-C)n sequences 126 ions 1 gel 240, 244 isopropylacrylamide polymer 247 gel volume on salts 246 gel-sol 238 J-couplings 83, 86 gelation 231 K+ 227 gels 221, 237, 242,244,247,252 k-carrageenans 221,227,230 gene activation 216 kinetic 14 genes 217 kinetics of gel swelling 252 glyoxal 116 kink 3 00213,216 kink angle 178, 181, 186 guanine amino proton 86 kink sites 179 kink-contraction
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