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The molecules of life:
Physical and chemical principles
Authors: KURIYAN John, KONFORTI Boyana, WEMMER David
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Publication date: 08-2012
512 p. · 21.6x27.9 cm · Paperback
512 p. · 21.6x27.9 cm · Paperback
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The Molecules of Life, a new undergraduate textbook, deepens our
understanding of how life functions by illuminating the physical
principles underpinning biology phenomena. The basic ideas of
energy, entropy, equilibrium thermodynamics, transport processes and reaction
kinetics are closely related to exciting issues in contemporary biology,
such as protein folding, chaperones and prion diseases, DNA
polymerase and ribosome fidelity, DNA recognition, drug design,
signal transduction, ion channel function, motor protein action and
the versatility of enzyme mechanism.
Part I. Biological Molecules 1. From Genes to RNA to Proteins 2.
Nucleic Acid Structure 3. Glycans and Lipids 4. Protein Structure 5.
Evolutionary Variation in Proteins. Part II. Energy and Entropy 6.
Energy and Intermolecular Forces 7. Entropy 8. Linking Energy and Entropy.
Part III. Free Energy 9. Free Energy 10. Chemical Potential and Drive
to Equilibrium 11. Voltages and Free Energy. Part IV. Molecular
Interactions 12. Thermodynamics of Binding 13. Specificity of
Macromolecular Recognition 14. Allostery. Part V. Kinetics and Catalysis
15. Rates of Molecular Processes 16. Enzyme Catalysis 17. Diffusion and
Transport. Part VI. Assembly and Activity 18. Folding 19. Fidelity
in DNA and Protein Synthesis.
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