Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot. Physical Biology of the Cell [1 ed.] Garland Science. 2008. 826 p.
CONTENTS
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Detailed Contents xv
Special Sections xxiv
PART 1 THE FACTS OF LIFE
Chapter 1: Why: Biology by the Numbers 3
Chapter 2: What and Where: Construction Plans for Cells and Organisms 29
Chapter 3: When: Stopwatches at Many Scales 75
Chapter 4: Who: “Bless the Little Beasties” 119
PART 2 LIFE AT REST
Chapter 5: Mechanical and Chemical Equilibrium in the Living Cell 167
Chapter 6: Entropy Rules! 215
Chapter 7: Two-State Systems: From Ion Channels to Cooperative Binding 257
Chapter 8: Random Walks and the Structure of Macromolecules 281
Chapter 9: Electrostatics for Salty Solutions 327
Chapter 10: Beam Theory: Architecture for Cells and Skeletons 357
Chapter 11: Biological Membranes: Life in Two Dimensions 407
PART 3 LIFE IN MOTION
Chapter 12: The Mathematics of Water 457
Chapter 13: A Statistical View of Biological Dynamics 481
Chapter 14: Life in Crowded and Disordered Environments 513
Chapter 15: Rate Equations and Dynamics in the Cell 539
Chapter 16: Dynamics of Molecular Motors 589
Chapter 17: Biological Electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley Model 647
Chapter 18: Light and Life (2nd d.)
Chapter 20: Biological Patterns: Order in Space and Time (2nd d.)
PART 4 THE MEANING OF LIFE
Chapter 18: Sequences, Specificity, and Evolution 681
Chapter 19: Network Organization in Space and Time 721
Chapter 20: Whither Physical Biology? 775
Index 787