Entropy-Driven Processes in Biology - Polymerization of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Protein and Similar Reactions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)

The purpose of this monograph is to bring together under one cover results of research on phenomena drawn from the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, bio physics, virology,and cell biology. The processes and reactions considered have one important feature in common: they are endothermic and, therefore, entropy driven. They are, in the main, reversible reactions leading to the formation of large structures, some of which play critical roles in life processes. If one thinks only of the subunits and of the structures they form upon poly merization, it seems to be a contradiction that such reactions can be driven by an increase in entropy; entropy is a measure of disorder. The increase in entropy must come from some other source, usually from the release of something coincidental to polymerization. That something has been shown to be water for the case of the polymerization of tobacco mosaic virus protein. Because of the remarkable similarity of the other processes to this one, it is a permissable inference that the release of water is the source of the entropy increase and therefore the driving force for all of them. The reactions and processes brought together in this book are still the sub jects of active research. ;~ny of the detailed interpretations presented here must be regarded as tentative, subject to modification as new information becomes available. However, the main characteristic of each reaction or pro cess, its endothermic or entropy-driven nature, is well established in all but one or two instances.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Molekularbiologie, Biochemie und Biophysik, 20
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	1975
Authors:	M.A. Lauffer
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	268
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-80871-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Medical microbiology & virology Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Biophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-80871-9
Barcode:	9783642808715

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