This volume contains the contributions of the 10th Symposium on Analytical Ultracentrifugation, held in Regensburg, Germany, on March 13th to 14th, 1997. Topics in the following fields were presented: Technical innovations; innovations in data analysis; modeling; biological systems; ions and polyelectrolytes; polymers, colloids, supramolecular systems; emulsions, gels, and dispersions; interacting systems and assemblies.

Direct analysis of sedimentation equilibrium distributions reflecting macromolecular interactions

Alternative strategies for the characterization of associations in multicomponent solutions via measurement of sedimentation equilibrium
Non-linear curve-fitting methods for data from the XL-A analytical utltracentrifuge
Rapid molecular mass determination by sedimentation velocity experiments and direct fitting of the concentration profiles
A computer program based on the psi function for model-independent analysis of sedimentation equilibrium distributions reflecting macromolecular interactions
Calculation of hydrodynamic parameters of biopolymers from scattering data using whole-body approaches
Calculation of hydrodynamic parameters of proteins from crystallographic data using multibody approaches
Analytical ultracentrifugation with fluorescence detection and biosafety containment and its application to the prion protein
Dye-labelling as a means to study ternary protein complexes by analytical ultracentrifugation: the band 3/ankyrin/aldolase complex from erythrocyte membranes
Studies of ligand-mediated conformational changes in enzymes by difference sedimentation velocity in the Optima XL-A ultracentrifuge
Quaternary structure and interaction parameters of bovine ?-crystallin: influence of isolation conditions
Investigation of irradiated eye-lens proteins by analytical ultracentrifugation and other techniques
Sedimentation analysis of SDS and albumin-SDS complexes
The self-association of basic helix-loop-helix peptides
Nuclear DNA fractions with grossly different base ratios in the genome of the marine sponge Geodia cydonium
Sedimentation equilibrium studies of synthetic polyelectrolytes by means of interference optical methods.-Investigation of quantum size colloids using the XL-I ultracentrifuge
Influence of pressure and solvent composition on the density gradient in the analytical ultracentrifuge I extended Hermans-Ende equation for the equilibrium density gradient
Influence of pressure and solvent composition on the density gradient in the analytical ultracentrifuge. II direct refractometric determination of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium density gradient
First experiences with the new XL-I AUC: Applications in polymer and colloid science
Analytical ultracentrifugation as a tool in supramolecular chemistry: a feasibility study using a metal coordination array
The sedimentation velocity of a gelled polymer
New contributions of analytical ultracentrifugation to the investigation of dispersions
Determination of hydrodynamic radius: a comparison of ultracentrifuge methods with dynamic light scattering.