Molecular Machines in Biology

Introduction; 1. Single-molecule FRET: technique and applications to the studies of molecular machines Xinghua Shi and Taekjip Ha; 2. Visualization of molecular machines by cryo-electron microscopy Joachim Frank; 3. Statistical mechanical treatment of molecular machines Debashish Chowdhury; 4. Investigation of molecular machines by normal mode analysis Karunesh Arora and Charles L. Brooks, III; 5. Structure, function, and evolution of archaeo-eukaryotic RNA polymerases - gatekeepers of the genome Finn Werner and Dina Grohmann; 6. Single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer investigations of ribosome-catalyzed protein synthesis Daniel D. MacDougall, Jingyi Fei and Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr; 7. Structure and dynamics of the ribosome as revealed by cryo-electron microscopy Xabier Agirrezabala and Mikel Valle; 8. Viewing the mechanisms of translation through the computational microscope James Gumbart, Eduard Schreiner, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Kwok-Yan Chan and Klaus Schulten; 9. The ribosome as a Brownian ratchet machine Alexander S. Spirin and Alexei V. Finkelstein; 10. The GroEL/GroES chaperonin machine Arthur L. Horwich and Helen R. Saibil; 11. ATP synthase - a paradigmatic molecular machine Thomas Meier, Jose Faraldo-Gomez and Michael Boersch; 12. ATP-dependent proteases Sucharita Bhattacharyya, Shameika R. Wilmington and Andreas Matouschek.