Biophysical Thermodynamics of Intracellular Processes [E-Book] : Molecular Machines of the Living Cell / by Lev A. Blumenfeld, Alexander N. Tikhonov.
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Personal Name(s): | Blumenfeld, Lev A., author |
Tikhonov, Alexander N., author | |
Imprint: |
New York, NY :
Springer,
1994
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Physical Description: |
VIII, 177 p. online resource. |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9781461226307 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4612-2630-7 |
Subject (LOC): |
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics of Living Systems
- 2.1. How Scientists Learned to Distinguish Energy from Force (Brief Historic Review)
- 2.2. Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Chemical Reactions
- 2.3. Applicability of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics to Biological Systems and Processes
- 2.4. The Mechanisms of Energy Coupling in Chemical Reactions
- 3 Molecular Machines: Mechanics and/or Statistics?
- 3.1. The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Its Application to Biochemical Systems
- 3.2. Energy-Transducing Molecular Machines
- 3.3. Statistical Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Fluctuations, and the Violation of the Mass Action Law
- 4 Principles of Enzyme Catalysis
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Earlier Theories of Enzyme Catalysis
- 4.3. The Relaxation Concept of Enzyme Catalysis
- 4.4. Protein Dynamics and Enzyme Functioning
- 5 Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes
- 5.1. Introduction: Two Views on the Problem of Energy Coupling in Biomembranes
- 5.2. Transmembrane Electrochemical Proton Gradients in Chloroplasts
- 5.3. Mechanism of ATP Formation Catalyzed by H+ATPsynthases
- Afterword.