Life — As a Matter of Fat The Emerging Science of Lipidomics /

• Main Author: Mouritsen, Ole G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Food > Biotechnology.; Polymers.; Biochemistry.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Biochemistry, general.; Polymer Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Food Science.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

LIFE - as a Matter of Fat Lipidomics is the science of the fats called lipids. Lipids are as important for life as proteins, sugars, and genes. The present book gives a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids and the lipid-bilayer component of c...

Table of Contents:

• The Overlooked Molecules
• Life from Molecules
• Head and Tail
• Oil and Water
• Lipids Speak the Language of Curvature
• A Matter of Softness
• Soft Shells Shape Up
• Biological Membranes — Models and Fashion
• Prologue: Lipidomics — A Science Beyond Stamp Collection
• Lipids Make Sense
• Lipids in Bilayers — A Stressful Life
• The More We Are Together
• Lipids in Flatland
• Social Lipids
• Lively Lipids Provide for Function
• Proteins at Lipid Mattresses
• Lipids in Action
• Cholesterol on the Scene
• Lipids in Charge
• Being Smart — A Fishy Matter of Fat
• Liquor and Drugs — As a Matter of Fat
• Lipid Eaters
• Powerful and Strange Lipids at Work
• Survival by Lipids.