Thermal biophysics of membranes / / Thomas Heimburg

• Autore: Heimburg Thomas
• Pubblicazione: Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Disciplina: 571.6/4
• Soggetto topico: Membranes (Biology) - Thermal properties
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-351) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Membranes-an introduction -- Membrane structure -- The composition of biological membranes -- Introduction into thermodynamics -- Water -- Lipid melting -- Phase diagrams -- Statistical models for lipid melting -- Lipid-protein interactions -- Diffusion -- Electrostatics -- Adsorption, binding, and insertion of proteins -- Elasticity and curvature -- Thermodynamics of the elastic constants -- Structural transitions -- Relaxation processes in membranes -- Permeability -- Nerve pulse propagation -- Anesthesia.
• Sommario/riassunto: An overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of the physics of membranes, including new insights from the past decade.The author uses classical thermal physics and physical chemistry to explain our current understanding of the membrane. He looks at domain and 'raft' formation, and discusses it in the context of thermal fluctuations that express themselves in heat capacity and elastic constants. Further topics are lipid-protein interactions, protein binding, and the effect of sterols and anesthetics. Many seemingly unrelated properties of membranes are shown
• Titolo autorizzato: Thermal biophysics of membranes
• ISBN: 1-281-23919-4; 9786611239190; 3-527-61159-2; 3-527-61160-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910144746403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tutorials in biophysics.