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Introduction to Molecular Biophysics
"Introduction to Molecular Biophysics builds the modern theoretical foundation needed to understand life processes from a physical point of view. The authors use a combination of biological information and physical models and theories to provide a rigorous description of biological structure...
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press
2003
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| Edition: | [ Special Indian Edition ] |
| Series: | CRC series in pure and applied physics.
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Table of Contents:
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Initiation
- Machinery of prokaryotic cells
- The photosynthetic revolution
- Origins of diploidal eukaryotic cells
- Summary: further stages of evolution
- Structures of Biomolecules
- Elementary building blocks
- Generalized ester bonds
- Directionality of chemical bonds
- Weaker intratomic interactions
- Ionic interactions
- Covalent bonds
- Free radicals
- Van der Waals bonds
- Hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions
- Polysaccharides
- Amphiphilic molecules in water environments
- Structures of proteins
- Polypeptide chains
- Proteins
- Protein folding
- Electrophoresis of proteins
- Protein interactions with environment
- Electron transfers in proteins
- Structures of nucleic acids
- Electrostatic potential of DNA
- DNA: information and damage
- Fluorescence in biomolecules
- Dynamics of Biomolecules
- Diffusion
- Diffusional flow across membranes
- Cells without sources
- Cells with sources
- Vibrations versus conformational transitions
- Stochastic theory of reaction rates
- Conformational transitions of proteins
- Protein-glass model
- Protein-machine model
- Models of random walks on fractal lattices
- Introduction to polymer biophysics
- Elastic properties of polymers
- Cellular automata
- Conway's game of life
- Bioenergetics: The Davydov model
- Biological coherence: The Froehlich model
- Ionic currents through electrolytes
- Electron conduction and tunneling
- Proton transport
- Interactions with electromagnetic radiation.