Biomembranes: Molecular Structure and Function

✍ Scribed by Robert B. Gennis (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 549
• Series: Springer Advanced Texts in Chemistry
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity. Some fields like basic biochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, and chemical thermody­ namics are well represented by many excellent texts, and new or revised editions are published sufficiently often to keep up with progress in research. However, some areas of chemistry, especially many of those taught at the graduate level, suffer from a real lack of up-to-date textbooks. The most serious needs occur in fields that are rapidly changing. Textbooks in these subjects usually have to be written by scientists actually involved in the research which is advancing the field. It is not often easy to persuade such individuals to set time aside to help spread the knowledge they have accumulated. Our goal, in this series, is to pinpoint areas of chemistry where recent progress has outpaced what is covered in any available textbooks, and then seek out and persuade experts in these fields to produce relatively concise but instructive introductions to their fields. These should serve the needs of one semester or one quarter graduate courses in chemistry and biochemistry. In some cases, the availability of texts in active research areas should help stimulate the creation of new courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: The Structure and Composition of Biomembranes....Pages 1-35
The Structures and Properties of Membrane Lipids....Pages 36-84
Characterization and Structural Principles of Membrane Proteins....Pages 85-137
Lateral and Transverse Asymmetry in Membranes....Pages 138-165
Membrane Dynamics and Protein-Lipid Interactions....Pages 166-198
Membrane Enzymology....Pages 199-234
Interactions of Small Molecules with Membranes: Partitioning, Permeability, and Electrical Effects....Pages 235-269
Pores, Channels and Transporters....Pages 270-322
The Cell Surface: Receptors, Membrane Recycling and Signal Transduction....Pages 323-369
Membrane Biogenesis....Pages 370-417
Back Matter....Pages 418-533

✦ Subjects

Biochemistry, general; Cell Biology