Index[[Student version, January 17, 2003]] 517
Boltzmann, 78 ,79, 81, 81c, 97, 127, 129, 132, 193–
195, 197, 198, 218, 226, 234, 235, 250, 257,
323, 338, 340, 367, 413
continuous, 67
discrete, 66 ,67
Gaussian, 67 ,68c
uniform, 67
process, of a cell, 39
processivity, 383
product, of enzyme, 353
prokaryotes, 35
pronuclei, 85
propagation parameter, 322
prosthetic group, 332, 353
protease inhibitor, 377, 406
protein, 33, 46 ,60c
folding, 288
globular, 47, 112
peripheral membrane, 54c
regulatory, 57
repressor, 56c, 57
synthesis, 42
Protein Data Bank, 62
protofilament, 48c
proton-motive force, 428, 434c
protonated form of a residue, 274
pseudopodia, 40, 357
pseudoscalar, 337
pump,seeion pump
pure number, 16
purines, 41
pyrimidines, 41
pyrophosphate, 43c
pyruvate, 426
pyruvate dehydrogenase, 33c, 426
quasi-steady state, 121 ,124, 366, 379, 380, 402, 448
quasistatic process, 190
quasisteady state, 417c
quaternary structure, 47
radian (unit), 495
radius of gyration, 112, 112c
Ram ́on y Cajal, Santiago, 476, 477c
random coil, 110
random walk, 101
self-avoiding, 112, 257
RasMol, 62
ratchet
diffusing, 390 ,392, 393c, 403, 404c, 437
F-, 405, 405c
G-, 362 ,363, 364c, 365, 367
perfect, 365 ,366, 368, 369, 379
S-, 363c, 363 ,364, 364c, 365, 367, 370, 378, 388
rate constant, 270
pseudo-first order, 402
rate constants, 195
rate-coding scheme, 479
rate-limiting process, 270
reaction coordinate, 372c, 372
reaction quotient, 266 , 388
reaction velocity, 353
receptors, 50
Recombination, 86c
reduction, 425
reference concentration, 261, 266
refractory period, 445, 455
regulatory protein,seeprotein
relaxation
to equilibrium, 122 , 196
replication,seeDNA
residue, 42 ,58, 231, 273, 274, 276, 287, 300, 328, 347,
381
charged, 274, 289, 290
hydrophbic, 290
hydrophobic, 288, 291
protonated and deprotonated forms, 274
resistance
electrical, 127
hydrodynamic, 161
resistivity, 484
respiration, 424 , 428
resting potential, 34, 416
reverse osmosis, 11c, 11 ,227c, 228, 229
Reynolds number, 17, 149c, 150
Reynolds, Osborne, 150
ribonuclease, 275c
ribose, 41
ribosome, 33c, 35c, 58 ,222c, 353, 497
ribozyme, 62
ribozymes, 353
Ritz variational approximation, 342
RMS deviation,seedeviation, 69
RNA, 45 ,201c
editing, 61
folding, 46c
messenger, 58, 59, 60c, 222c
transfer, 62
transfer (tRNA), 33c, 58
RNA polymerase,seepolymerase
ruffles, 39c
Rumford,seeThompson, Benjamin
S-ratchet,seeratchet
Saccharomyces cerevisiæ,35
Sakur–Tetrode formula, 178 ,188, 206
sarcomere, 355c
saturation kinetics, 353
sauce B ́earnaise, 278
scalar quantity, 302
scale height, 142 , 143
Schellman, John, 321
Schr ̈odinger, Erwin, 82
Schwann cell, 40
SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate), 277 ,278, 279c, 283, 284,
289
Second Law, 8, 24, 145, 164, 173, 182 ,185, 187–189, 191,
192, 211, 240, 264–266, 306, 363, 364, 406
as Le Chˆatelier’s Principle, 269
second order rate law, 270
secondary structure, 47
secretory vesicle,seevesicle
sedimentation time scale, 111c, 143
self-assembly, 277
self-avoidance, 112
self-avoiding walk, 112
self-limiting property, 455
semiflexible polymer, 305
semipermeable membrane,seemembrane
septation, 434
serum albumin, 112
Shakespeare, 13
Shannon’s formula, 175, 197
shear, 146
strain,seestrain
shear modulus, 152
shear stress, 152
SI units, 16
sickle-cell anemia, 275, 276c, 289
side chain, 273
siemens (unit), 418
sigmoid, 323
sigmoid function, 329
site-directed mutagenesis, 288
Smoluchowski equation, 367 , 379
Smoluchowski, Marian Ritter von, 108, 398
sodium anomaly, 416
sodium channel,seeion channel, voltage-gated
sodium–calcium exchanger, 433
sodium–potassium pump,seeion pump
solubility, 243
solvation
hydrophobic, 244
soma, 39 ,52c, 477c
somatic cell, 39c, 84
space constant, of axon, 452
space-clamp, 465 ,466c
sparsely connected reaction graph, 371
specific optical rotation,seeoptical rotation
spectrin, 50
spring
potential energy, 24
stacking,seeunstacking
standard chemical potential, 261, 268
standard free energy change, 26, 268, 268 ,389, 428
transformed, 268
statistical fluctuation, 118
Statistical Postulate, 176 ,177, 179, 180, 185, 186, 193,
205–207
statistical system, 205
isolated, 177
Staudinger, Hermann, 92
steady state, 28, 417c, 420, 423, 447, 448, 461
Stefan–Boltzmann constant, 28
stereocilia, 213, 214c
stereospecific binding, 231 , 386
Stirling’s formula, 102
stoichiometric coefficients, 267Page references of the form 999c refer to figure captions; bold references are the defining instance of a term.