Preface xiii Part One Developments on Single-Molecule Experiments Staring at a Protein: Ensemble and Single-Molecule Investigations on Protein-Folding Dynamics 3 By Satoshi Takahashi and Kiyoto Kamagata Single-Molecule FRET of Protein-Folding Dynamics 23 By Daniel Nettels and Benjamin Schuler Quantitative Analysis of Single-Molecule FRET Signals and its Application to Telomere DNA 49 By Kenji Okamoto and Masahide Terazima Force to Unbind Ligand Receptor Complexes and the Internal Rigidity of Globular Proteins Probed by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy 71 By Atsushi Ikai, Rehana Afrin, and Hiroshi Sekiguchi Recent Advances in Single-Molecule Biophysics with the Use of Atomic Force Microscopy 89 By Masaru Kawakami and Yukinori Taniguchi Dynamical Single-Molecule Observations of Membrane Protein Using High-Energy Probes 133 By Yuji C. Sasaki Single-Molecular Gating Dynamics for the KcsA Potassium Channel 147 By Shigetoshi Oiki, Hirofumi Shimizu, Masayuki Iwamoto, and Takashi Konno Static and Dynamic Disorder in IN VITRO Reconstituted Receptor Adaptor Interaction 195 By Hiroaki Takagi, Miki Morimatsu, and Yasushi Sako Part Two Developments on Single-Molecule Theories and Analyses Change-Point Localization and Wavelet Spectral Analysis of Single-Molecule Time Series 219 By Haw Yang Theory of Single-Molecule FRET Efficiency Histograms 245 By Irina V. Gopich and Attila Szabo Multidimensional Energy Landscapes in Single-Molecule Biophysics 299 By Akinori Baba and Tamiki Komatsuzaki Generalized Michaelis Menten Equation for Conformation Modulated Monomeric Enzymes 329 By Jianlan Wu and Jianshu Cao Making it Possible: Constructing a Reliable Mechanism from a Finite Trajectory 367 By Ophir Flomenbom Free Energy Landscapes of Proteins: Insights from Mechanical Probes 395 By Zu Thur Yew, Peter D. Olmsted, and Emanuele Paci Mechanochemical Coupling Revealed by the Fluctuation Analysis of Different Biomolecular Motors 419 By Hiroaki Takagi and Masatoshi Nishikawa Author Index 437 Subject Index 467