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Autore: | Kinoshita Masahiro |
Titolo: | Mechanism of Functional Expression of the Molecular Machines / / by Masahiro Kinoshita |
Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (X, 70 p. 30 illus., 24 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina: | 539.6 |
Soggetto topico: | Physical chemistry |
Biophysics | |
Biological physics | |
Proteins | |
Statistical physics | |
Dynamical systems | |
Physical Chemistry | |
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics | |
Protein-Ligand Interactions | |
Complex Systems | |
Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Importance of Translational, Configurational Entropy of Water -- Molecular Machines -- Concluding Remarks: Mechanism of Functional Expression Common in the Molecular Machines. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This brief discusses the mechanism of functional expression of a protein or protein complex utilizing the ATP hydrolysis cycle or proton-motive force from a unique point of view focused on the roles of water. A variety of processes are considered such as the unidirectional movement of a linear-motor protein along a filament, insertion of an unfolded protein into a chaperonin and release of the folded protein from it, transport of diverse substrates across the membrane by a transporter, and directed rotation of the central subunit within a rotatory motor protein complex. These topics are discussed in a unified manner within the same theoretical framework. The author argues that water plays imperative roles in the functional expression of these molecular machines. A pivotal factor is the entropic force or potential originating from the translational displacement of water molecules coexisting with the molecular machines in the entire system. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Mechanism of Functional Expression of the Molecular Machines |
ISBN: | 981-10-1486-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910254051003321 |
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