What Sustains Life? : Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials
From our perspective and as advanced in this volume, the interaction of water with dissimilar groups compris ing each protein molecule, the competition for water between these disparate substituents along chain molecules of living organisms, and the freedom of motion that water gives protein chains combine to provide the physical basis of Life.
eBook, English, 2006
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, Boston, MA, 2006
1 online resource (Online-Datei.)
9780817645625, 9780817643461, 0817645624, 081764346X
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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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