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heat of vaporization, 28 , 498
helix-extension parameters, 322
Helmholtz free energy,seefree energy
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 5
hemoglobin, 288, 328 ,329c
sickle-cell, 275, 276c, 289
heteropolymer, 340
heterozygous, 84
Hill, Archibald, 330
histone proteins, 39c
HIV
protease enzyme, 377
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), 61c, 137c, 377c,
406c, 499c
Hodgkin, Alan, 420, 421, 441, 455–457, 460, 461, 465,
466, 468, 469, 472, 475, 483, 485
homodimer, 383
homopolymer, 340
homozygous, 84
Hooke relation, 152 ,211, 295, 301, 303
humiliation, 216
Huxley, Andrew, 441, 455, 456, 460, 461, 465, 466, 468,
469, 472, 475, 485
hydrated ion, 268 , 471
hydraulic permeability, 161
hydraulic permeation, 229
hydrodynamic scaling invariance, 167
hydrogen bond, 42c, 46, 47c, 241c, 241 ,242, 243, 245,
318, 496
directionality, 253
strength
in vapor phase, 242
in water environment, 243
hydrolysis, 22 ,43c
hydronium ion, 268
hydrophobic
effect, 244 ,245, 253
interaction, 246
hydrophobic interaction, 288
hydrostatic equilibrium,seeequilibrium
hydroxyl group, 272
hyperpolarization, 443
hypersphere, area, 206
ice, 242
ideal gas law, 23 ,65, 72–76, 99, 100, 108, 109, 185, 190,
217, 218, 220, 224, 469
inactivation, 471c, 474c, 476
inextensible chain, 310, 316
inextensible rod, 304
inflection point, 120 , 329
inhibition
competitive, 382, 406, 478
noncompetitive, 382, 406
uncompetitive, 406
initiation parameter, 323
inorganic phosphate, 41 ,43c
integral membrane proteins, 50, 54c, 285c
integrate-and-fire model, 479
intensive quantity, 181
internal constraint, 183
invertase, 407
ion, 34, 90 , 125
ion chanel
voltag-gated, 472
ion channel, 14, 58c, 435c, 469
ligand-gated, 475c, 475 ,477, 479
voltage-gated, 442, 462, 465, 470, 470c, 471, 471c,
472, 472–474c, 475–477, 480
ion product of water, 272
ion pump, 14, 50, 57, 352 , 420 ,421c
electrogenic, 422
sodium–potassium, 58c, 422c, 423, 437, 439, 445,
447
ionophore, 435
Iso, K., 320
isoelectric point, 275
isomerization, 195 , 263
isomers, 21
isotope, 26
isotropy
of a fluid, 146, 336
of an elastic rod, 338
joule (unit), 16
Joule, James, 5, 27
Katz, Bernard, 420, 421, 441, 457, 465, 483
Kauzmann, Walter, 246, 253, 288
Kelvin,seeThomson, William (Lord Kelvin)
Kelvin scale, 182
Kennedy, Eugene, 426
kernel, 341
KIF1A,seekinesin, single-headed
kinematic viscosity, 166
kinesin, 49c, 50, 53c, 55c, 332c, 352, 355 ,377, 384, 385c,
394c
neck linker domain, 331
single-headed, 55c, 390, 392c
kinetic energy, 24
Kirchoff’s first law, 446
Kramers, Hendrik, 314, 400
Kratky–Porod model,seepolymer, elastic rod model
Krebs cycle, 427
Kuhn length, 305
lactoglobulins, 289
Lagrange multiplier, 205
lambda phage, 300
lamellipodia, 39c, 40, 357
laminar flow, 145
Langevin function, 215
Laplace’s formula, 221
Le Chˆatelier’s Principle, 253 , 269 ,294, 321, 329
lecithin, 278, 291
Lehninger, Albert, 426
Leibnitz, Gottfried, 3
ligand-gated ion channel,seeion channel
ligase, 348
Lineweaver–Burk plot, 381 ,382c, 385c
linked genes, 85
linking number, 348 ,349c
Liouville’s theorem, 207
Listeria monocytogenes,357, 358c
liverwurst, 312
lollipops, 431
lysis, 221 , 415
machine
cyclic, 352
one-shot, 352
machine, molecular,seemolecular machine
macroion, 230, 230 ,231, 272, 273, 275, 416
macromolecule, 92
macroscopic system, 208
Mass Action, 267 ,269, 294, 329
matrix, 311
of mitochondrion, 37c, 426
product, 313
maximum velocity, of enzyme, 380
Maxwell, James Clerk, 65, 78, 109, 133, 185
McBain, James, 280
McClintock, Barbara, 87
mean, 69
mean-field approximation, 233 ,234c, 257
mechanochemical coupling, 327 , 331
meiosis, 34, 84 ,86c
membrane
bilayer,seebilayer membrane
permeability, 121
permeability via pores, 122
semipermeable, 11c, 219c, 223, 225 ,227c, 228, 229,
249
Mendel, Gregor, 83
metabolism, 27 ,33
micelle, 278, 279c, 279 ,280c, 285c, 289, 290c
Michaelis constant, 380
Michaelis–Menten rule, 381 ,385, 406
microscopic systems, 192
microstate, 176 , 177
microtubule, 48c, 48 ,49, 50c, 53c, 55c, 277, 332c, 355,
358c, 384c, 391
microtubules, 289
microvilli, 40
midpoint temperature, 322
milk, 289
Miss Muffet, 289
mitochondrion, 35 ,36, 37c, 356, 427c
mitosis, 34, 84 , 277
MM rule,seeMichaelis–Menten rule
mobility, 107
electrophoretic, 276c
modulus
bulk, 300
shear, 300
molar (unit), 220 , 262
molar mass, 21Page references of the form 999c refer to figure captions; bold references are the defining instance of a term.