Giovanni Meacci

Min Oscillations in Escherichia Coli

Physical Aspects: Experiments and Theoretical Descriptions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the last twenty years the dramatic growth of
fluorescence mycroscopy techniques and advances in
microscopic manipulation of single molecules as DNA
has been accompanied by the migration of a huge
number of scientists, coming from the most different
disciplines, toward the new "Eldorado" of the modern
biological research. The work presented in this book
reflects these recent developments in applying
typical physics tools to the study of the bacterium
Escherichia coli. This amazing 2.5 micrometer cell
is for biological physicists equivalent to the
hydrogen atom for atomic physicists. The Min-proteins
play a decisive role in the correct
selection of the division site through pole-to-pole
oscillations. A quantitative study of such a
phenomenon is presented in this book. Important
physical quantities characterizing the system, such
as the in-vivo Min-protein mobility are measured,
then deterministic and probabilistic mathematical
models are proposed and discussed. Being limited on
a very specific subject and based on a PhD thesis,
this monograph is mainly, but not exclusively, aimed
to researchers and PhD students working in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9783639071580
• ISBN-10: 3639071581
• Artikelnr.: 25709720

Autorenporträt

is at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He
obtained his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of
Complex Systems-TU Dresden. His research in Biological Physics
aims to understand collective behavior of biomolecules, cells,
and organisms using quantitative models.