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About this book
This textbook provides a strong foundation and a clear overview for students of membrane biology and an invaluable synthesis of cutting-edge research for working scientists. The text retains its clear and engaging style, providing a solid background in membrane biochemistry, while also incorporating the approaches of biophysics, genetics and cell biology to investigations of membrane structure, function and biogenesis to provide a unique overview of this fast-moving field. A wealth of new high resolution structures of membrane proteins are presented, including the Na/K pump and a receptor-G protein complex, offering exciting insights into how they function. All key tools of current membrane research are described, including detergents and model systems, bioinformatics, protein-folding methodology, crystallography and diffraction, and molecular modeling. This comprehensive and up-to-date text, emphasising the correlations between membrane research and human health, provides a solid foundation for all those working in this field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents in brief
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The diversity of membrane lipids
- 3 Tools for studying membrane components
- 4 Proteins in or at the bilayer
- 5 Bundles and barrels
- 6 Functions and families
- 7 Protein folding and biogenesis
- 8 Diffraction and simulation
- 9 Membrane enzymes
- 10 Membrane receptors
- 11 Transporters
- 12 Channels
- 13 Electron transport and energy transduction
- 14 In pursuit of complexity
- Appendix I Abbreviations
- Appendix II Single-letter codes for amino acids
- Index