Molecular and Cellular Biophysics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780521624701
Subjects: Molecular biology; Physiology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Life Sciences - Biophysics; Medical / Physiology
First sentence: The relation between structure and function is central to molecular biology.
Description: "This book provides advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a foundation in the basic concepts of molecular and cellular biophysics. Students who have taken physical chemistry and calculus courses will find this book an accessible and valuable aid in learning how these concepts can be used in biological research. The text provides a rigorous treatment of the fundamental theories in biophysics and illustrates their application with examples. Conformational transitions of proteins are studied first using thermodynamics, and subsequently with kinetics. Allosteric theory is developed as the synthesis of conformational transitions and association reactions.

Basic ideas of thermodynamics and kinetics are applied to topics such as protein folding, enzyme catalysis, and ion channel permeation. These concepts are then used as the building blocks in a treatment of membrane excitability. Through these examples, students will gain an understanding of the general importance and broad applicability of biophysical principles to biological problems."--Jacket.