The Role of Water in Atp Hydrolysis Energy Transduction by Protein Machinery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811084584)

1. Free Energy Analyses for the ATP Hydrolysis in Aqueous Solution by Large-Scale QM/MM Simulations Combined with a Theory of Solutions

Hideaki Takahashi

Shun-ichi Kidokoro

3. Spatial Distribution of Ionic Hydration Energy and Hyper-mobile Water

George Mogami, Makoto Suzuki and Nobuyuki Matubayasi

4. Theoretical studies of strong attractive interaction between macro-anions mediated by multivalent metal cations and related association behavior: Effective interaction between ATP binding proteins can be regulated by hydrolysis.

Ryo Akiyama

5. Statistical mechanical integral equation approach to reveal the solvation effect on hydrolysis free energy of ATP and its analogue

6. A Solvent Model of Nucleotide-protein interaction - Partition coefficients of phosphates in solvent-water mixtures-

Hideyuki Komatsu

Part II: Basis of Protein-Ligand and Protein-Protein Interactions

7. Energetics of myosin-ATP hydrolysis by calorimetry

Takao Kodama

8. Orchestrated electrostatic interactions among myosin, actin, ATP, and water

Mitsunori Takano

9. Protonation/deprotonation of proteins by neutron diffraction structure analysis

Ichiro Tanaka, Katsuhiro Kusaka, Nobuo Niimura

10. All-atom analysis of free energy of protein solvation through molecular simulation and solution theory

Nobuyuki Matubayasi

11. Uni-directional propagation of structural changes in actin filaments

Taro Q. P. Uyeda, Kien Xuan Ngo, Noriyuki Kodera, Kiyotaka Tokuraku

12. Functional mechanisms of ABC transporters as revealed by molecular simulations

Tadaomi Furuta, Minoru Sakurai

13. Statistical thermodynamics on the binding of biomolecules

Tomohiko Hayashi

Part III: Functioning Mechanisms of Protein Machinery

14. Ratchet model of motor proteins and its energetics

Yohei Nakayama and Eiro Muneyuki

15. Single Molecule Analysis of Actomyosin in the Presence of Osmolyte

Mitsuhiro Iwaki, Kohji Ito and Keisuke Fujita

16. Novel intermolecular surface force unveils the driving force of actomyosin system

Makoto Suzuki, George Mogami, Takahiro Watanabe, and Nobuyuki Matubayasi

17. Extremophilic enzymes related to energy conversion

18. Functioning mechanism of ATP-driven proteins inferred on the basis of water-entropy effect

Masahiro Kinoshita

Masayoshi Nishiyama

20. Modulation of the sliding movement of myosin-driven actin filaments associated with their distortion: The effect of ATP, ADP, and inorganic phosphate

Kuniyuki Hatori and Satoru Kikuchi