516 Index[[Student version, January 17, 2003]]
mole, 20
molecular
crowding, 221
device, 352
machine, 352
motor,seemotor
motors, 12
moments of a distribution, 69
momentum, 24
monolayer, 20, 278
monomer, 92
monomeric form of a protein, 357
monovalent ion, 233 , 411
Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 86
most probable value, 69 ,77
motility assay, 55c, 354 ,355, 383, 385c
motor
molecular, 352
mRNA, 58
Muller, Hermann, 88
multiplication rule, 70, 78, 104, 128, 197, 338
multiplicity, 198
multistable behavior, 370
muscle fiber, 355c
mutagenesis, 91c
mutation, 84
Mycoplasma genitalium,58
myelin sheath, 442
myofibril, 355c
myoglobin, 62, 142, 143, 329c, 329 ,332, 333c
myosin, 33c, 62, 354 ,355, 356c
NAD, 427c, 427
native conformation, 287 ,290, 332
Navier–Stokes equation, 167
neck linker, 331 ,332c, 386
Nernst potential, 412c, 419
Nernst relation, 125c, 126 ,142, 262, 413, 414, 449
Nernst–Planck formula, 126 ,127, 143, 366
neuromuscular junction, 477
neuron, 39 ,52c, 441
all-or-nothing response, 444
neurotoxins, 420
neurotransmitter, 34 ,38, 475, 475c, 477, 478, 478c, 479
neutral pH, 273
newton (unit), 16
Newton, Isaac, 3, 6, 146, 164
Newtonian fluid,seefluid
no-slip boundary condition, 151 ,160c
node, of a reaction graph, 371
non-ergodic behavior, 206
non-Newtonian fluid,seefluid, complex
noncompetitive inhibition,seeinhibition, 407
nonlinear cable equation, 463
nonpolar molecule, 240 ,243, 244, 245c, 246, 253, 272
normalization condition
continuous distribution, 67
discrete distribution, 66
NTP (nucleotide triphosphate), 41
nuclear membrane, 37c
nuclear pore, 36c
Nucleic Acid Database, 62
nucleoid, 32c, 35, 35c
nucleosome, 39c, 46, 62, 497
nucleotide, 41
nucleotide triphosphate, 41
nucleus, 35
number density, 19
number flux, 19
number-averaged chain length, 344
Ohm’s law, 25, 127 ,134, 161, 166, 419, 420
Ohmic hypothesis, 419c, 460
oligodendroglia, 40
one-shot machine,seemachine
open thermodynamic system, 186
optical rotation, 319c, 344
optical tweezer, 199 ,200c, 354, 356c
optical tweezers, 308c, 385c
organelle, 35, 35 ,37c, 287
osmoregulation, 417 , 433
osmotic flow, 10 ,11c, 219c, 227c, 228
osmotic pressure, 219, 228, 280, 415
osteoblast, 40
oubain, 439
overstretching transition, 307, 328
oxidation, 425
oxidative phosphorylation, 426
p.m.f.,seeproton-motive force
Paramecium, 155
partition coefficient, 122 , 285
partition function, 198, 198 ,215, 217, 220, 292, 308, 309,
314, 315, 323, 325, 341
grand, 263
pascal (unit), 75
passive spread,seeelectrotonus, 453
patch-clamp, 470, 470c, 470 ,473c
Pauling, Linus, 15, 275
PC,seephosphatidylcholine
PEG (polyethylene glycol), 224
penicillin, 434
peptide bond, 42 ,43c
peptidoglycan layer, 157c
perfect ratchet,seeratchet
peripheral membrane protein, 50
periplasmic space, 157c
permeability, 123c, 249
artifial membranes, 121
bilayer membrane, 285
hydraulic, 161
matrix, 249
permeation constant, 121
permittivity, 18, 230 ,232, 240
Perrin, Jean, 138
persistence length
bend, 303
twist, 303
Perutz, Max, 15, 330
pesudo-first order rate constant, 402
Pfeffer, Wilhelm, 255
pH, 273
phage, 31, 32c
phase transition, 317
phenomenological parameters, 301
phenotype, 82
phosphatidylcholine, 123c, 278c, 283, 283
phosphatidylcholine), 63
phosphoglycerate kinase, 56c, 378, 379c
phospholipid, 44c, 44 ,50, 53, 54c, 277, 278c, 284, 285,
286c, 291
photon, 22
Pi,seeinorganic phosphate
Planck constant, 22, 133, 178, 207
Planck, Max, 132
plasma membrane, 35c, 35 ,39c, 54c, 287
plasmalemma, 439
plasmid, 349c
poise (unit), 144
poison dart frog, 471c
Poisson equation, 234c, 234
Poisson–Boltzmann equation, 235 ,236, 237, 250–252
boundary condition, 235
polar molecule, 240 ,241, 245, 246, 272
polarimeter, 319
polarity, of a microtubule, 386 ,388, 391
polarizable medium, 240
polydispersity, 279 ,324, 344
polyelectrolyte, 346
polymer, 91 , 110
elastic rod model, 304 ,310c, 316, 339, 341, 348
extensible, 316 ,317c
freely jointed chain model, 305 ,310c
Gaussian model, 135
one-dimensional cooperative chain model, 310c,
314
polymer elasticity, 306
polymerase
DNA, 57 ,62, 162c, 356
RNA, 56c, 58 ,59c, 356
polynucleotides, 45
polypeptide, 42 ,43c, 58
polysaccharides, 48
polytene chromosome,seechromosome
positive feedback, 460
postsynaptic neuron, 476
potential difference, 126
potential of mean force, 400
powerstroke, 386
pressure, 24, 73c, 74 , 187
presynaptic neuron, 476
primary structure, 46 , 290
primordial soup, 271
prion, 206
prions, 61
probability, 66
probability distribution
binomial, 102 ,103c, 135cPage references of the form 999c refer to figure captions; bold references are the defining instance of a term.