Aspects of Physical Biology Biological Water, Protein Solutions, Transport and Replication /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Franzese, G. (Editor), Rubi, M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 752
• Subjects: Physics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.

The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms...

Table of Contents:

• Biological Water
• Dynamics of Water at Low Temperatures and Implications for Biomolecules
• Anomalous Behaviour of Supercooled Water and Its Implication for Protein Dynamics
• Interactions of Polarizable Media inWater and the Hydrophobic Interaction
• Protein and Biological Solutions
• Metastable Mesoscopic Phases in Concentrated Protein Solutions
• Application of Discrete Molecular Dynamics to Protein Folding and Aggregation
• Cooperative Effects in Biological Suspensions: From Filaments to Propellers
• Transport and Replication
• A Thermodynamic Description of Active Transport
• Energy Interconversion in Transport ATPases Role of Water in Ions Transport and in the Energy of Hydrolysis of Phosphate Compounds
• A Novel Mechanism for Activator-Controlled Initiation of DNA Replication that Resolves the Auto-regulation Sequestration Paradox
• Activity-Dependent Model for Neuronal Avalanches.