Robert G. Endres

Physical Principles in Sensing and Signaling: With an Introduction to Modeling in Biology

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Produktbeschreibung

The book addresses how biological cells work, and specifically achieve their remarkable sensing and signaling properties using insights from physics and engineering. The book aims to teach concepts, omitting many of the technical details, and hence should attract a broad readership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• New
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 192mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780199600649
• ISBN-10: 0199600643
• Artikelnr.: 47866040

Autorenporträt

At Imperial College Robert Endres heads the Biological Physics Group. Recently he won the prestigious ERC Strating Grant award. Before moving to the United Kingdom, Robert was a postdoc with Prof. Ned Wingreen in the Molecular Biology Department at Princeton University, where his main research accomplishments were the understanding of the remarkable signalling properties of bacterial chemotaxis and the atomistic prediction of protein-DNA binding sites.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Preface
2: Introduction
3: Physical concepts
4: Mathematical tools
5: Chemotaxis in bacterium Escherichia coli
6: Signal amplification and integration
7: Robust precise adaptation
8: Polar receptor localization and clustering
9: Accuracy of sensing
10: Motor impulse response
11: Optimization of pathway
12: 'Seeing' like a bacterium
13: Beyond E. coli chemotaxis