James D. Gunton, Andrey Shiryayev, Daniel L. Pagan

Protein Condensation

Kinetic Pathways to Crystallization and Disease

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Produktbeschreibung

Explains for researchers the rapidly evolving field of protein condensation and the relation to disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781107424272
• ISBN-10: 1107424275
• Artikelnr.: 41197694

Autorenporträt

J. D. Gunton is Joseph A. Waldschmitt Professor of Physics at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of approximately 200 articles in refereed journals on equilibrium and nonequilibrium phase transitions. He is a Rhodes Scholar and a Danforth Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Globular protein structure
3. Experimental methods
4. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
5. Protein-protein interactions
6. Theoretical studies of equilibrium
7. Nucleation theory
8. Experimental studies of nucleation
9. Lysozyme
10. Some other globular proteins
11. Membrane proteins
12. Crystallins and cataracts
13. Sickle hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia
14, Alzheimer's disease
Index.