Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Systems and Processes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780511517099
Subjects: Statistical mechanics
Description: Addresses fundamental physical principles governing cellular structure and function with implications in clinical and biomedical contexts.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Concentration and crowding effects on protein stability from a coarse-grained model; 2 Observations on the mechanics of a molecular bond under force; 3 Statistical thermodynamics of cellmatrix interactions; 4 Potential landscape theory of cellular networks; 5 Modeling gene regulatory networks for cell fate specification; 6 Structural and dynamical properties of cellular and regulatory networks; 7 Statistical mechanics of the immune response to vaccines; Index.