Energy Transformation in Biological Systems
Published on 16. September 2009
352 pages
978-0-470-71781-3 (ISBN)
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
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Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme OBE FRCP was a British medical doctor, and the founding director of the Ciba Foundation. He was born in Sheffield, the son of a mechanical engineer, and educated at Repton School and Corpus Christi, Cambridge.
Content
- Intro
- Energy Transfornlation in Biological Systems
- Contents
- Opening remarks
- The roots of bioenergetics
- Energy transfer in mitochondrial synthesis of ATP
- a survey
- Chloroplasts
- Discussion of the three preceding papers
- Energy changes during the formation and interconversion of enzyme-substrate complexes
- Discussion
- Magnetic resonance studies of specificity in binding and catalysis of phosphotransferases
- Discussion
- Energetic aspects of transport of ADP and ATP through the mitochondrial membrane
- Discussion
- Bioluminescence: from chemical bonds to photons
- Discussion
- The purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium: a new system for light energy conversion
- Discussion
- Ionic aspects of excitation in rod outer segments
- Discussion
- The ionic channels in excitable membranes
- Discussion
- Different approaches to the mechanism of the sodium pump
- Discussion
- The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate: sugar phosphotransferase system
- Discussion
- The active transport of carbohydrates by Escherichia coli
- Discussion
- The origin of force in skeletal muscle
- Discussion
- Spasmonemes, a new contractile system
- How does ATP act as an energy source?
- Discussion
- Muscle as a thermodynamic machine
- Discussion
- Mechanical and biochemical cycles in muscle contraction
- Discussion
- Protein phosphorylation and metabolic control
- Discussion
- Energy utilization for control
- Discussion
- General Discussion
- Adenosine phosphates and adenylate kinase
- Gearing ratios in energy transformation
- ATPase systems
- Storage of energy
- Closing remarks
- Index of contributors
- Subject index
