Flyvbjerg / Jülicher / Ormos Physics of Bio-Molecules and Cells

Les Houches Session LXXV, 2-27 July 2001
2002
ISBN: 978-3-540-45701-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 75, 580 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique

Aimed at those working to enter this rapidly developing field, this volume on biological physics is written in a pedagogical style by leading scientists giving explanations that take their starting point where any physicist can follow and end at the frontier of research in biological physics. These lectures describe the state-of-the-art physics of biomolecules and cells. In biological systems ranging from single biomolecules to entire cells and larger biological systems, it focuses on aspects that require concepts and methods from physics for their analysis and understanding, such as the mechanics of motor proteins; how the genetic code is physically read and managed; the machinery of protein--DNA interactions; force spectroscopy of biomolecules' velopes, cytoskeletons, and cytoplasms; polymerization forces; listeria propulsion; cell motility; lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology for single-molecule analysis of biomolecules; bioinformatics; and coding and computational strategies of the brain.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flyvbjerg, Henrik

Jülicher, Frank

Ormos, Pal

David, Francois

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Physics of Protein-DNA Interaction.- Mechanics of motor proteins.- Modelling motor protein systems.- Dynamic Force Spectroscopy.- Polymerization Forces.- The Physics of Listeria Propulsion.- Physics of Composite Cell Membrane and Actin Based Cytoskeleton.- Cell Adhesion as Wetting Transition?.- Biological Physics in Silico.- Some Physical Problems in Bioinformatics.- Three Lectures on Biological Networks.- Thinking About The Brain.