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Record Nr.

UNISA996466700003316

Titolo

Aspects of physical biology : biological water, protein solutions, transport and replication / / G. Franzese, M. Rubi, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-540-78765-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 233 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 752

Disciplina

574.191

Soggetti

Biophysics - Technique

Statistical physics - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contributions from a conference held in Sitges (Barcelona) Spain on 5-9 June, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Biological Water -- Dynamics of Water at Low Temperatures and Implications for Biomolecules -- Anomalous Behaviour of Supercooled Water and Its Implication for Protein Dynamics -- Interactions of Polarizable Media inWater and the Hydrophobic Interaction -- Protein and Biological Solutions -- Metastable Mesoscopic Phases in Concentrated Protein Solutions -- Application of Discrete Molecular Dynamics to Protein Folding and Aggregation -- Cooperative Effects in Biological Suspensions: From Filaments to Propellers -- Transport and Replication -- A Thermodynamic Description of Active Transport -- Energy Interconversion in Transport ATPases Role of Water in Ions Transport and in the Energy of Hydrolysis of Phosphate Compounds -- A Novel Mechanism for Activator-Controlled Initiation of DNA Replication that Resolves the Auto-regulation Sequestration Paradox -- Activity-Dependent Model for Neuronal Avalanches.

Sommario/riassunto

The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an important role in the development of this new field. For this reason, the XXth session of the famous Sitges



Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to "Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior". As is by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected, expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas between biologists and physicists. The present volume focuses on three main subtopics (biological water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication), presenting for each of the them the on-going debates on recent results. The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this volume, based on new experiments and new theoretical interpretations.

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Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00012875

Autore

Whitaker, Graham

Titolo

A bibliographical guide to classical studies / Graham Whitaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hildesheim, : Olms, 1997-

Descrizione fisica

bd. ; 27 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia