nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
401– 402
nitrogen cycle 66 – 68
nitrogen fixation 66 – 68
nitrogenase 68, 336 –339
molybdenum–iron cofactor
337–339
Nobel Prize
in Chemistry 44, 66, 116, 121, 125,
129, 145, 159, 283, 319, 398,
428
in Medicine 19
in Physics 179, 180, 183, 188, 193,
211
nonphotochemical quenching
205 –207
nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE)
351–352
nucleic acids 2Olson, John 307
operator, definition 184 –191
optical spectroscopy 427
osmosis 88Parkinson’s disease 418 – 419
partial pressure definition 8, 95 –98
partition function 166 –167
Pasteur, Louis 148
patch clamp 398
peptide bond 278
periodic table 265 –267
Perutz, Max 283
phase diagram 72–73, 90 –98
phase transition 71–73
phenoxazinone synthase 323, 330
phosphorescence 307
photoelectric effect 180 –182
photosystem I 425 – 430
photosystem II 117, 430 – 436
photosystem II, manganese cluster
434 – 436
Planck, Max 167, 178
population inversion 300 –301
porin 396 –397
positron 259 –260, 414 – 419
positron emission tomography
414 – 419
potassium channel 398 – 401pressure, definition 2
prions 168 –171
protein dynamics 58, 110 –111,
150 –151
protein folding 168 –171
proteomics 89, 412– 414
protomotive force, definition 126
proton pathway 108 –111, 383 –386
proton transfer 433 – 436
Pruisner, Stanley 170
puffer fish 6
purple bacteria 214 –215quinone 108 –111, 117radioactive decay 415 – 416
Raoult, Francois 86
Raoult’s law 85 – 87
receptor 78 –79, 401– 402
Rees, Douglas 398
relativistic quantum mechanics
257–260
reorganization energy, definition 145
respiratory chain 126 –128
retinal 378 –387
reversible process 49 –50
rhodopsin 376 –385
ribonucleotide reductase 369 –370
ribozymes 158 –160
RNA structure 18 –19
RNA world 158 –160
Rohrer, Heinrich 211
Rybberg, Johannes 181scanning tunneling microscopy
211–215
Schrodinger, Erwin 182, 184,
194 –195
Schrodinger equation, derivation
184 –188
Schrodinger’s cat 194 –195
second law of thermodynamics 1,
46 – 69
second-order reactions 140 –141
second viral coefficient 75
self-consistent field theory 261–262
sensory rhodopsin 385 –387
Singer, S. Jonathan 77
single-molecule spectroscopy 310 –315INDEX 491
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