Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot, Nigel Orme, Herman Garcia. Physical biology of the cell [2 nd.] Garland Science. 2013. ~1040 p.
Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Special Sections xxix
Map of the Maps xxx
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 35
Chapter 3: When: Stopwatches at Many Scales 87
Chapter 4: Who: “Bless the Little Beasties” 137
PART 2 LIFE AT REST
Chapter 5: Mechanical and Chemical Equilibrium in the Living Cell 187
Chapter 6: Entropy Rules! 237
Chapter 7: Two-State Systems: From Ion Channels to Cooperative Binding 281
Chapter 8: Random Walks and the Structure of Macromolecules 311
Chapter 9: Electrostatics for Salty Solutions 355
Chapter 10: Beam Theory: Architecture for Cells and Skeletons 383
Chapter 11: Biological Membranes: Life in Two Dimensions 427
PART 3 LIFE IN MOTION
Chapter 12: The Mathematics of Water 483
Chapter 13: A Statistical View of Biological Dynamics 509
Chapter 14: Life in Crowded and Disordered Environments 543
Chapter 15: Rate Equations and Dynamics in the Cell 5 73
Chapter 16: Dynamics of Molecular Motors 623
Chapter 17: Biological Electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley Model 681
Chapter 18: Light and Life 717
PART 4 THE MEANING OF LIFE
Chapter 19: Organization of Biological Networks 801
Chapter 20: Biological Patterns: Order in Space and Time 893
Chapter 21: Sequences, Specificity, and Evolution 951
Chapter 22: Whither Physical Biology? 1023
Index 1039