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CONTENTS Special Issue: Presentations given at the 12th International Biophysics Congress, August 12-16, 1996, Amsterdam, Netherlands, A. Watts (Editor) Crossbridge viscosity in activated frog muscle fibres G. Cecchi, M.A. Bagni, E. Cecchini, B. Colombini and F. Colomo (Firenze, Italy) Antibody structure, prediction and redesign V. Morea (Pomezia, Rome, Italy), A. Tramontano (Pomezia, Italy), M. Rustici (Sassari, Italy), C. Chothia and A.M. Lesk (Cambridge, UK) Mechanisms of virus assembly probed by Raman spectroscopy: the icosahedral bacteriophage P22 R. Tuma and G.J. Thomas Jr (Kansas City, MO, USA) Structure of Sesbania mosaic virus at 3 A resolution M.R.N. Murthy, M. Bhuvaneswari, H.S. Subramanya, K. Gopinath and H.S. Savithri (Bangalore, India) Hair cell mechano—transduction: Its influence on the gross mechanical characteristics of a hair cell sense organ S.M. Van Netten (Groningen, The Netherlands) Nucleic acid structure and recognition D.R. Duckett, A.I.H. Murchie (Dundee, UK), R.M. Clegg (Gottingen, Germany), G.S. Bassi, M.-J.E. Giraud-Panis and D.M.J. Lilley (Dundee, UK) Imaging and nano-manipulation of single biomolecules T. Funatsu, Y. Harada, H. Higuchi, M. Tokunaga, K. Saito, Y. Ishii (Osaka, Japan), R.D. Vale (Osaka, Japan; San Francisco, CA, USA) and T. Yanagida (Osaka, Osaka, Japan) The role of actin binding proteins in epithelial morphogenesis: models based upon Listeria movement R.M. Golsteyn, D. Louvard and E. Friederich (Paris, France) Intermediate filament structure: hard a-keratin L.N. Jones (Belmont, Vic., Australia), M. Simon (Upton, NY, USA), N.R. Watts, F.P. Booy, A.C. Steven (Bethesda, MD, USA) and D.A.D. Parry (Palmerston North, New Zealand) Structure and arrangement of the 5 subunit in the E. coli ATP synthase (ECF,F,) S. Wilkens, A. Rodgers, |. Ogilvie and R.A. Capaldi (Eugene, OR, USA) Peptide nucleic acid (PNA). From DNA recognition to antisense and DNA structure P.E. Nielsen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Infrared spectroscopy: a new frontier in medicine M. Jackson, M.G. Sowa and H.H. Mantsch (Manitoba, Canada) Cancer pathology in the year 2000 C.E. Mountford, S. Doran, C.L. Lean and P. Russell (Sydney, NSW, Australia) The role of ganglioside GM, in the modulation of conformation and activity of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca? *-ATPase F.Y. Yang (Beijing, China), L.H. Wang (Dalian, China), X.Y. Yang (Beijing, China), Z.C. Tsui (Dalian, China) and Y.P. Tu (Beijing, China) Biophysical investigations on the myb—DNA system R.V. Hosur, P.K. Radha, A. Madan and L.C. Padhy (Mumbai, India) In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy of human brain: The biophysical basis of dementia B.D. Ross, S. Blumi, R. Cowan, E. Danielsen, N. Farrow and R. Gruetter (Pasadena, CA, USA) Time, life...and mass spectrometry. New techniques to address biological questions C.E. Costello (Boston, MA, USA) Electron transfer and electronic energy relaxation under high hydrostatic pressure A. Freiberg, A. Ellervee, M. Tars, K. Timpmann and A. Laisaar (Tartu, Estonia) Integration of functional and anatomical brain images M.A. Viergever, J.B.A. Maintz and R. Stokking (Utrecht, Netherlands) Aminophospholipid translocase and proteins involved in transmembrane phospholipid traffic D. Dolis, C. Moreau, A. Zachowski and P.F. Devaux (Paris, France) Membrane structure and dynamics as viewed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy M. Auger (Québec, Que., Canada) Modern science and the explosion of new knowledge L. De Meis and J. Leta (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) Biophysical properties of epithelial water channels M. Parisi (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sacly, France), G. Amodeo, C. Capurro, R. Dorr, P. Ford and R. Toriano (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ‘Module’-substituted globins: Artificial exon shuffling among myoglobin, hemoglobin a- and B-subunits K. Wakasugi, K. Ishimori and |. Morishima (Kyoto, Japan) 265 Author Index 275 Subject Index 277 e E n e e ——— a e e _ —