Biomembrane Frontiers (eBook, PDF)

Nanostructures, Models, and the Design of Life
Redaktion: Jue, Thomas; Faller, Roland; Longo, Marjorie L.; Risbud, Subhash H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book, Biomembrane Frontiers: Nanostructures, Models, and the Design of Life, a volume in the Handbook of Modern Biophysics series, is based on a workshop held on the 20th and 21st of March 2008 at the University of California Davis. Unlike other meeting monographs, the book presents the exciting frontiers of biomembrane research for both expert and student c- leagues interested in research at the interface of biology and physics. The idea of the workshop originated from discussions about how to create an effective o- reach for the NSF-NIRT joint project "Aerogel and Nanoporous Materials for Biomolecular Applications" between the Longo, Faller, and Risbud groups at UC Davis and the groups of Curt Frank at Stanford and Joe Satcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In the p- ject we interacted with researchers from diverse backgrounds and hoped to create an oppor- nity to foster a multi- and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. Thus, the workshop idea was c- ceived. The workshop brought together experts working on many different aspects of biological membranes: from theory and simulation, to supported model bilayers, and to clinical appli- tions. Several material scientists working on the interactions of biological membranes with b- logical or nonbiological materials also participated. Such a diverse set of experts in one meeting is unusual, as the different communities of theorists and experimentalists working on model membranes and real biological systems are typically quite distinct and do not often interact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Humana Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781607613145
• Artikelnr.: 37354871

Inhaltsangabe

Molecular Theory Applied to Lipid Bilayers and Lipid-Protein Interactions.- Membrane Elasticity and Mediated Interactions in Continuum Theory: A Differential Geometric Approach.- Structure and Dynamics of Lipid Monolayers: Theory and Applications.- Multiscale Modeling of Supported Lipid Bilayers.- Collective Dynamics in Lipid Membranes: From Pore Formation to Flip-Flops.- Spatiotemporal Organization of Spin-Coated Supported Model Membranes.- Nanopore Analysis of Nucleic Acids: Single-Molecule Studies of Molecular Dynamics, Structure, and Base Sequence.- Complex Applications of Simple FRAP on Membranes.- Punching Holes in Membranes: How Oligomeric Pore-Forming Proteins and Lipids Cooperate to Form Aqueous Channels in Membranes.- Morphogens, Membranes and Mechanotransduction in Articular Cartilage.- Lifecycle of a Lipoprotein from a Biophysical Perspective.- Targeting Apolipoproteins in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "There are two broad approaches to the study of biological membranes. ... As suggested by the title, this volume takes the biophysical approach. Necessarily, the approach adopted in many chapters is very mathematical, but most chapters include enough background discussion for the more non-mathematical to understand ... . It is based on a workshop held in early 2008, and would be of most interest to postdoctoral fellows and above working in a Physics environment." (Anthony G. Lee, Molecular Membrane Biology, February, 2010)