Index
abiotic process, 285
absolute scale (of temperature), 182
absolute zero, 23
acetic acid, 273
acetylcholine, 475c, 475 ,477, 478
acetylcholinesterase, 478
acid, 273
weak, 273
actin
cortex, 49 ,50, 213c, 357
filamentous, 33c, 49 ,50c, 354, 355, 356c, 358c, 496
globular, 354
action potential, 443 ,444c, 454c, 458c, 464c, 479
activation barrier, 22, 79 ,80, 89, 91, 194, 197, 224, 265,
269, 291, 333, 333c, 353, 369, 372, 373, 373c,
374, 375, 377, 383, 386, 389, 395, 471
active transporter, 422
activity, 261 , 294
addition rule, 70, 71, 193
adenine, 41
adenosine diphosphate,seeADP
adenosine monophosphate,seeAMP
adenosine triphosphate,seeATP
ADP, 41 ,43c
afterhyperpolarization, 444c, 445 ,457c, 468, 483
allele, 84 ,86c
allometric scaling exponent, 134
allosteric
control, 34, 330
enzyme, 331, 332c
interactions, 330 ,331, 387, 393
ion channel, 472
alpha helix, 47c, 47 , 318
amino acid, 42 ,43c, 273, 381
amino group, 42 , 272
amount of substance, 294
AMP, 41 ,43c
AMP-PMP (adenylyl imidodiphosphate), 387
ampere (unit), 16
amphiphile, 277
anærobic metabolism, 426, 432
anion, 230
antibodies, 289
antiport, 433, 439
apoptosis, 34
aqueous solution, 262
archæa, 35
Archibald method, 169
Archimedes’ principle, 142
Arrhenius rate law,seealso activation barrier, 80 ,344,
369, 372, 373, 373c, 400
assortment, 84
ATP,33c, 41 ,43c, 51, 287, 424
synthase, 37c, 426, 429
ATPase, 421
autocorrelation function, 339
average, 69
Avogadro’s number, 20
axon, 39 ,410, 443c, 477c
giant, 410 ,457c, 464
terminal, 39 ,50, 442, 479
axon hillock, 479
axoplasm, 450c, 451
bacteria, 35, 35
bacteriorhodopsin, 429
basal metabolic rate, 27
base, 273
of DNA, 41
basepair, 300, 303
batrachotoxin, 471c
beer, 2
bend, 302 ,303c
bending deformation,seedeformation
bending stiffness
membrane,seebilayer membrane, 498
rod, 303
Berg, Howard, 156
Bernstein, Julius, 456
bilayer membrane, 50, 53c, 123, 283, 284c, 285, 358c
bending stiffness of, 285, 286c, 286 , 287
permeability of, 285
bilayer vesicle, 284 , 354
bin, 67 ,116c
binomial distribution, 102 ,135c
bit, 12, 174
Bjerrum length, 234 , 496
Bohr effect, 330
Boltzmann constant, 23 ,101, 193
Boltzmann distribution, seeprobability distribution,
234c
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 78, 109, 182
Born self-energy, 230 ,246, 437
Born–Oppenheimer approximation, 399
bottleneck process, 270
bouton, 39
Boyer, Paul, 431
Brown, Robert, 99
Brownian motion, 100
BSA (bovine serum albumin), 224
buoyant force, 142
busbar, 425
C351 molecular motor, 55c
cable equation, 452
linear, 452
nonlinear, 463 ,464c
calcium
pumping, 433, 477
calorie (unit), 5
cAMP,seecyclic AMP
canonical ensemble, 78
capacitance, 25, 448
capacitive current, 449
capacitor, 25, 236, 448
carboxyl group, 42
casein, 289
catalase, 353
catalysis, 57, 199, 206, 331c, 352 ,353, 372, 373c, 376,
377, 382c, 407, 422c, 427, 431
reversibility of, 374
cation, 230
cell wall, 32c, 35c, 35
Celsius scale, 182
central dogma, 57
centripetal acceleration, 24
channel
inactivation,seeinactivation
channel-inactivating segment, 472c, 476
channels, 50
chaperone, 58
charge density, 19
surface, 19
charge flux, 19
charge renormalization, 251
chemical force, 264, 267
chemical potential, 26, 179, 260, 260 ,262–264, 269, 291,
294, 351, 377, 379, 404
of ideal gas or solution, 261
standard,seestandard chemical potential
chemiosmotic mechanism, 428 , 429
chiffon pie, 291
chiral molecule, 21, 22c, 320
chloroplast, 433
chloroplasts, 37
chord conductance formula, 447 , 458
chromatid, 86c
chromatids, 39c