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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. For biology, physics, and engineering students who want to learn about the principles of protein mechanics and how it applies to the morphology and motility of cells.
Full Description
Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton provides a physical foundation for molecular mechanics. Part I explains how small particles like proteins respond to mechanical, thermal, and chemical forces, Part II focuses on cytoskeletal filaments, and Part III focuses on motor proteins. The treatments are unified in the respect that they are organized around principles rather than proteins: chapters are centred on topics such as structure, chemistry, and mechanics, and different filaments or motors are discussed together.
Contents
Preface.- Introduction.- PART IForces.- Mass, Stiffness, and Damping of Proteins.- Thermal Forces and Diffusion.- Chemical Forces.- Polymer Mechanics.- PART II: CYTOSKELETON.- Structures of Cytoskeletal Filaments.- Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton.- Polymerization of Cytoskeletal Filaments.- Force Generation by Cytoskeletal Filaments.- Active Polymerization.- PART III: MOTOR PROTEINS.- Structures of Motor Proteins.- Speeds of Motors.- ATP Hydrolysis.- Steps and Forces.- Motility Models: From Crossbridges to Motion.- Afterword.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.