Contents:Contractile Proteins:Tropomyosin as the Spearhead of Regulatory Proteins (S Ebashi)Actin and the Sliding Mechanism (F Oosawa)Mutations of Troponin C to Probe the Molecular Mechanism of Triggering Contraction in Striated Muscle (R-Y Tan)The Progress in Research of Catch Contraction (Z-X Gong et al.)Viral Proteins and Protein Biosynthesis:A New Enhancer Element ENII in HBV (Z-P Li et al.)Beta Globin Locus Activation Region: A Novel Cis-Acting Element (Q-L Li)Insulin and Receptor Proteins:Experimental Evidence on the Receptor-Binding Site of Insulin (Y-M Feng & Y-S Zhang)The Structure and Function of Insulin Receptor (J-L Gu & P DeMeyts)Ohmefentanyl, A New Highly Selective Agonist for mµ Opioid Receptor (Z-Q Chi et al.)Enzyme Proteins, Immuno-Proteins and Toxic Proteins:Studies on Serine Protease Inhibitors from Three Different Families (C-W Chi)Analysis of Interactions between C3b, C3bi, Factor H, C4bp and Factor I (L-M Hsiung & I Gigli)Research Progress on Snake Venom of Agkistrodon halys Pallas (Y-C Chen)Protein Conformation:Unfolding and Inactivation during Thermal Denaturation of Creatine Kinase (Y-N Kuang et al.)Polypeptide Conformation in Surfactant Solution (J-T Yang)Atrial Natriuretic Factor and its Molecular Design (Z-X Lu)Functional Significance of the Free Volume Inside Proteins: A Conjecture (G Weber)Glycoproteins:Carbohydrates and Proteins (K-Y Wang)and other papers Readership: Biochemists. keywords:Proteins;Biochemistry

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