Molecular Machines in Biology (eBook, ePUB)

Workshop of the Cell
Redaktion: Frank, Joachim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The concept of molecular machines in biology has transformed the medical field in a profound way. Many essential processes that occur in the cell, including transcription, translation, protein folding and protein degradation, are all carried out by molecular machines. This volume focuses on important molecular machines whose architecture is known and whose functional principles have been established by tools of biophysical imaging (X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy) and fluorescence probing (single-molecule FRET). This edited volume includes contributions from prominent scientists and researchers who understand and have explored the structure and functions of these machines. This book is essential for students and professionals in the medical field who want to learn more about molecular machines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139199384
• Artikelnr.: 52993661

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Single-molecule FRET: technique and applications to the
studies of molecular machines Xinghua Shi and Taekjip Ha; 2. Visualization
of molecular machines by cryo-electron microscopy Joachim Frank; 3.
Statistical mechanical treatment of molecular machines Debashish Chowdhury;
4. Investigation of molecular machines by normal mode analysis Karunesh
Arora and Charles L. Brooks, III; 5. Structure, function, and evolution of
archaeo-eukaryotic RNA polymerases - gatekeepers of the genome Finn Werner
and Dina Grohmann; 6. Single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy
transfer investigations of ribosome-catalyzed protein synthesis Daniel D.
MacDougall, Jingyi Fei and Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr; 7. Structure and dynamics
of the ribosome as revealed by cryo-electron microscopy Xabier Agirrezabala
and Mikel Valle; 8. Viewing the mechanisms of translation through the
computational microscope James Gumbart, Eduard Schreiner, Leonardo G.
Trabuco, Kwok-Yan Chan and Klaus Schulten; 9. The ribosome as a Brownian
ratchet machine Alexander S. Spirin and Alexei V. Finkelstein; 10. The
GroEL/GroES chaperonin machine Arthur L. Horwich and Helen R. Saibil; 11.
ATP synthase - a paradigmatic molecular machine Thomas Meier, José
Faraldo-Gómez and Michael Börsch; 12. ATP-dependent proteases Sucharita
Bhattacharyya, Shameika R. Wilmington and Andreas Matouschek.