E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten, eBook
Blumenfeld / Tikhonov Biophysical Thermodynamics of Intracellular Processes
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4612-2630-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Molecular Machines of the Living Cell
E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-1-4612-2630-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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1 Introduction.- 2 Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics of Living Systems.- 2.1. How Scientists Learned to Distinguish Energy from Force (Brief Historic Review).- 2.2. Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Chemical Reactions.- 2.3. Applicability of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics to Biological Systems and Processes.- 2.4. The Mechanisms of Energy Coupling in Chemical Reactions.- 3 Molecular Machines: Mechanics and/or Statistics?.- 3.1. The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Its Application to Biochemical Systems.- 3.2. Energy-Transducing Molecular Machines.- 3.3. Statistical Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Fluctuations, and the Violation of the Mass Action Law.- 4 Principles of Enzyme Catalysis.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Earlier Theories of Enzyme Catalysis.- 4.3. The Relaxation Concept of Enzyme Catalysis.- 4.4. Protein Dynamics and Enzyme Functioning.- 5 Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes.- 5.1. Introduction: Two Views on the Problem of Energy Coupling in Biomembranes.- 5.2. Transmembrane Electrochemical Proton Gradients in Chloroplasts.- 5.3. Mechanism of ATP Formation Catalyzed by H+ATPsynthases.- Afterword.
