What Sustains Life? : Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials
This book brings together three decades worth of collaborative research to address the question "What sustains life?" this text contains elements of memoir, history, and a solid, informative scientific core that will interest the general reader, student, and professional researcher.
eBook, English, 2006
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, Boston, MA, 2006
1 online resource (Online-Datei.)
9780817645625, 9780817643461, 0817645624, 081764346X
762190985
Druckausg.
What Sustains Life? An Overview.- The Pilgrimage: Highlights in Our Understanding of the Products and Components of Living Organisms.- Likelihood of Life’s Protein Machines: Extravagant in Construction Yet Efficient in Function.- Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect.- On the Evolution of Protein-based Machines (Toward Complexity of Structure and Diversity of Function).- Biology Thrives Near a Movable Cusp of Insolubility.- Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-based machines of Biology.- Advanced Materials for the Future: Protein-based Materials with Potential to Sustain Individual Health and Societal Development.- Epilogue.
Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)
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