Biological Physics
by Mielczarek, Eugenie V.; Greenbaum, Elias S.; Knox, Robert S.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-03-01
Publisher(s): Amer Inst of Physics
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Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction to Infrastructure | p. 1 |
| Physics and biology | p. 3 |
| Biological membranes | p. 16 |
| Biomembrane phase transitions | p. 23 |
| Influence of interatomic interactions on the structure and stability of polypeptides and proteins | p. 31 |
| Theory of the phase transition between helix and random coils in polypeptide chains | p. 54 |
| Density of low-energy vibrational states in a protein solution | p. 64 |
| Pigment-protein interactions in the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis | p. 68 |
| The hemoglobin molecule | p. 75 |
| Importance of DNA stiffness in protein-DNA binding specificity | p. 88 |
| Introduction to Cells | p. 93 |
| Bacteria swim by rotating their flagellar filaments | p. 95 |
| Physics of chemoreception | p. 97 |
| Life at low Reynolds number | p. 124 |
| Magnetosome dynamics in magnetotactic bacteria | p. 133 |
| Introduction to Energetics | p. 141 |
| Electron transfer between biological molecules by thermally activated tunnelling | p. 143 |
| Intermolecular energy migration and fluorescence | p. 148 |
| Exciton migration and trapping in photosynthesis | p. 161 |
| Excitation trapping and primary charge stabilization in Rhodopseudomonas viridis cells, measured electrically with picosecond resolution | p. 171 |
| Hemoglobin structure and respiratory transport | p. 176 |
| Evidence for conformational and diffusional mean square displacements in frozen aqueous solution of oxymyoglobin | p. 191 |
| Spectral shapes of Mossbauer and incoherent neutron scattering from harmonically bound nuclei in Brownian motion: applications to macromolecular systems | p. 195 |
| Hemoglobin S gelation and sickle cell disease | p. 204 |
| The electrocardiogram as an example of electrostatics | p. 226 |
| Improved explanation of the electrocardiogram | p. 234 |
| Bursting, beating, and chaos in an excitable membrane model | p. 236 |
| Introduction to Information Generation and Transfer | p. 247 |
| The electrophysics of a nerve fiber | p. 249 |
| Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities | p. 296 |
| The biophysics of visual photoreception | p. 301 |
| Resetting biological clocks | p. 310 |
| Introduction to Experimental Techniques | p. 317 |
| Characterization of the human auditory cortex by the neuromagnetic method | p. 319 |
| Image formation by induced local interactions: examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance | p. 332 |
| Observation of tissue metabolites using [superscript 31]P nuclear magnetic resonance | p. 334 |
| Femtosecond spectroscopy of excitation energy transfer and initial charge separation in the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospeudomonas viridis | p. 337 |
| Dynamics of ligand bonding to myoglobin | p. 342 |
| Ultraviolet fluorescence of the aromatic amino acids | p. 361 |
| Spectral broadening in biomolecules | p. 368 |
| Platinized chloroplasts: a novel photocatalytic material | p. 372 |
| Introduction to Photosynthesis | p. 375 |
| Thermodynamics of the primary reactions of photosynthesis | p. 377 |
| Physical mechanisms in photosynthesis: Past elucidations and current problems | p. 382 |
| Electron transfer reactions in bacterial photosynthesis: charge recombination kinetics as a structure probe | p. 388 |
| Energetics of initial charge separation in bacterial photosynthesis: the triplet decay rate in very high magnetic fields | p. 411 |
| Author Index | p. 423 |
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