Contents

1. Broad Scope of Biophysics,
   Greta Pifat-Mrzljak
2. Electrical Double Layers beyond the Primitive Model,
   Stjepan Marčelja
3. Thermal Denaturation of Membrane Proteins: An Infrared Study,
   Rosana Chehín, Ibon Iloro and José Luis R. Arrondo
4. Lipid Asymmetry in Eucaryotic Cell Membranes: Ups and Downs. A Critical Appraisal
   Philippe F. Devaux
5. Domain Structure of Biological Membranes as Studied by Electron Paramagnetic Response,
   Janez Štrancar, Olga Zorko, Marjana Nemec, Jelka Svetek and Milan Schara
6. Membrane Ion Sensors Modulating Ion Channels and Signal Transmission,
   Peter M. Vassilev, Michael P. Vassilev, Marie P. V, Kanazirska, J. Mitchel, C.Ye, Stephen J. Quinn and Edward M. Brown
7. Nickel Incorporation into Nickel-Dependent Enzymes,
   Nikola Drapal, Thomas H. P. Maier and August Böck
8. Interaction of N-acetylglucosamine-b (1-4)-galactosyltransferase with Liposomes,
   Kevin M. Cawthern, Patricia J. Anderson, Eugene A. Permyakov and Lawrence J. Berliner
9. Structures of Large Macromolecular Complexes: The Idiotype-Anti-Idiotype Interactions and Plant Satellite Viruses,
   Nenad Ban
10. Energetic and Entropic Factors Determining Binding Affinity in Protein-Ligand Complexes,
    Gerhard Klebe and Hans-Joachim Böhm
11. Crystallographic Database Knowledge: Starting Point for New Computer Tools in Drug Design,
    Gerhard Klebe
12. Success Stories in Structure-based Drug Design,
    Gerhard Klebe
13. Fluorescence Spectroscopy: The Excited State and its Relaxation. Part One: Steady-State Fluorescence,
    William R. Kirk
14. Fluorescence Spectroscopy: The Excited State and its Relaxation. Part Two: Fluorescence Lifetimes,
    William R. Kirk
15. Prions and their biophysical background,
    Deltev Riesner
16. Ribosomal Crystallography: Cryo Protectants and Cooling Agents,
    Susanne Krumbholtz, Franck Schlünzen, Jörg Harms, Heike Bartels, Ingo Kölln, Klaus Knaack, William S. Bennett, Pulooru Bhanumoorthy, Harly As Hansen, Niels Volkmann, Anat Bashan, Inna Levin, Ante Tocilj and Ada Yonath
17. Prediction of Bendability and Curvature in Genomic DNA,
    Andrei Gabrielian, Kristian Vlahovi?ek, Mircea G. Munteanu, M. Michael Gromiha, Ivan Brukner, Roberto Sanchez and Sándor Pongor
18. Control of the late Phase of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Expression in Infected Cells: the Tat/ TAR and Rev/ RRE Interactions,
    Peter Jonathan Gasking Butler
19. Challenges in Vaccine Development,
    W. Neal Burnette
20. Critical Cellular Events in Cortical Development: Opportunities for Biophysics,
    Paško Rakić