Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes

This text was primarily designed for graduate courses in bioenergetics. It discusses basic principles and concepts central to modern membrane biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, the components and pathways for electron transport and hydrogen ion translocation, and the utilization of electrochemical ion gradients. The book presents a comparative treatment of respiratory and photosynthetic energy transduction, and uses protein sequence data coupled with physical concepts to discuss the mechanisms of energy transducing proteins.