The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life

• Main Author: Kurzynski, Michal (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Organic chemistry.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Thermodynamics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Organic Chemistry.; Cell Biology.; Biochemistry, general.

Living organisms are open thermodynamic systems whose functional structure has developed and been kinetically frozen during the historical process of biological evolution. A thermodynamics of both nonequilibrium and complex systems is needed for their description. In this book, the foundations of su...

Table of Contents:

• Biophysics: An Experimental Tool of Biology or the Physics of Animate Matter?
• Statistical Description of Matter
• Thermodynamic State
• Origins and Evolution of Life
• Molecular Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell
• Chemical Reactions
• Enzymatic Catalysis
• Biological Free Energy Transduction
• Lack of Partial Thermodynamic Equilibrium
• Thermodynamic Supplement
• Stochastic Processes
• Structure of Biomolecules
• Dynamics of Biomolecules.