Molecular machines a materials science approach / Goivanni Zocchi.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Dedication; 1 Brownian Motion; 1.1 Random Walk; 1.2 Polymer as a Simple Random Walk; 1.3 Direct Calculation of p(R); 1.4 The Langevin Approach; 1.5 Correlation Functions; 1.6 Barrier Crossing; 1.7 What is Equilibrium?; 2 Statics of DNA Deformations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 DNA Melting; 2.3 Zipper Model; 2.4 Experimental Melting Curves; 2.5 Base Pairing and Base Stacking as Separate Degrees of Freedom; 2.6 Hamiltonian Formulation of the Zipper Model; 2.7 2 × 2Model: Cooperativity from Local Rules; 2.8 Nearest Neighbor Model

2.9 Connection to Nonlinear Dynamics2.10 Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity of DNA; 2.11 Bending Modulus and Persistence Length; 2.12 Measurements of DNA Elasticity: Long Molecules; 2.13 Measurements of DNA Elasticity: Short Molecules; 2.14 The Euler Instability; 2.15 The DNA Yield Transition; 3 Kinematics of Enzyme Action; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Michaelis-Menten Kinetics; 3.3 The Method of the DNA Springs; 3.4 Force and Elastic Energy in the Enzyme-DNA Chimeras; 3.5 Injection of Elastic Energy vs. Activity Modulation; 3.6 Connection to Nonlinear Dynamics: Two Coupled Nonlinear Springs

4 Dynamics of Enzyme Action4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Enzymes are Viscoelastic; 4.3 Nonlinearity of the Enzyme's Mechanics; 4.4 Timescales; 4.5 Enzymatic Cycle and Viscoelasticity: Motors; 4.6 Internal Dissipation; 4.7 Origin of the Restoring Force g; 4.8 Models Based on Chemical Kinetics (Fisher and Kolomeisky, 1999); 4.9 Different Levels of Microscopic Description; 4.10 Connection to Information Flow; 4.11 Normal Mode Analysis; 4.12 Many States of the Folded Protein: Spectroscopy; 4.13 Interesting Topics in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics Relating to Enzyme Dynamics; Bibliography

Chapter 1: Brownian MotionChapter 2: Statics of DNA Deformations; Chapter 3: Kinematics of Enzyme Action; Chapter 4: Dynamics of Enzyme Action; Index

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