Cooperativity and regulation in biochemical processes /

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Author / Creator:Ben-Naim, Arieh, 1934-
Imprint:New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2001.
Description:xvii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4428305
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ISBN:0306463318
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-345) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introducing the Fundamental Concept
  • 2. The Binding Isotherm (BI)
  • 3. Adsorption on a Single Polymer with Conformation Changes Induced by the Binding Process
  • 4. Two-site Systems; Direct and Indirect Cooperativity
  • 5. Three-site Systems; Non-additivity and Long Range Correlations
  • 6.
  • 7. Large Linear Systems of Binding Sites
  • 8. Regulatory Enzymes
  • 9. Solvent Effects on Cooperativity
  • 10. Appendices
  • Appendix A. Pair and triple correlations between events
  • Appendix B. Localization of the adsorbent molecules, and its effect on the binding isotherm
  • Appendix C. Transition from microstates to macrostates
  • Appendix D. First order correction to non-ideality of the ligand's reservoir
  • Appendix E. Relative slopes of the equilibrated and "frozen in" BI's in a multi macrostate system
  • Appendix F. Spurious cooperativity in single-site systems
  • Appendix G. The relation between the binding isotherm and the titration curves for two-site systems
  • Appendix H. Synthetic data
  • Appendix I. A comment on nomenclature
  • Appendix J. Average binding constants and correlation functions
  • Appendix K. Utility function in binding systems