Recent Advances in Biological Membrane Studies Structure and Biogenesis Oxidation and Energetics

A NATO Advanced Study Institute on "New Developments and Methods in Membrane Research and Biological Energy Transduction" was held in order to consider some of the most recent developments in membrane research methodologies and results, with particular emphasis on studies of biological ene...

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Other Authors: Packer, Lester (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1985, 1985
Edition:1st ed. 1985
Series:NATO Science Series A:, Life Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Determination of the Electrochemical Potential Difference of Protons in Bacterial Chromatophores
  • Kinetics of Proton-Transport-Coupled ATP Synthesis Driven by an Artificially Generated ?pH and ??
  • Light Induced Generation of a Proton Motive Force and Ca++-Transport in Membrane Vesicles of Streptococcus cremoris Fused with Bacteriorhodopsin Proteoliposomes
  • Control of Mitochondrial Respiration
  • Molecular Study on Solute Carriers in Biomembranes, Exemplified by Two Well-Characterized Carriers from Mitochondria, the ADP/ATP Carrier and the Uncoupling Protein.
  • The Mitochondrial F0-F1 Adenosine Triphosphatase: Isolation by Sepharose Hexylammonium Chromatography
  • The Unfolding of a Catalytic Mechanism for the Remarkable ATP Synthase
  • Membrane-Oscillator Hypothesis of Metabolic Control in Photoperiodic Time Measurement and the Temporal Organization of Development and Behaviour in Plants
  • I. Structure and Biogensis
  • Membrane Structure: Neutron Diffraction and Small Angle Scattering Studies
  • The Nature of Proteins in Membranes
  • Phosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein: Model for Lipid-Protein Interactions and Probe for Membrane Research
  • Phosphatidylinositol Kinase, A Key Enzyme of Phosphatidylinositol Metabolism: Its Role in an Intracellular Second Messenger System
  • Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Biology: Spin Trapping
  • Structure of Enveloped Viruses and their Interaction with Cell Surfaces
  • Modification and Spin Labeling Studies of Membrane Bioenergetics
  • Spectroscopic Probes for Conformational Transients of Membrane Proteins
  • Determinations of Functional Heterogeneity in Proteoliposomes
  • On the Mode of Action of the Delta-Endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis
  • Microenvironmental Properties and Conformational Changes in Glycogen Phosphorylase
  • Quantum Mechanical Model for Passive Transport Through Bilayer Lipid Membranes
  • Origin of the Plastid Envelope Membranes
  • Pigment-Protein Complexes of Thylakoid Membranes: Assembly, Supramolecular Organization
  • Specific Properties of Higher Plant Mitochondria
  • Fast Membrane Transformation in a Flashing Endoplasmic Reticulum
  • II. Oxidations
  • Drug Biotransformation and Drug Toxicity Studied with Intact Mammalian Cells
  • Characterization of the NADPH-Dependent Superoxide-Generating Oxidase of Phagocytic Leukocytes
  • Mechanisms of Membrane Lipid Peroxidation
  • Fluorescence Studies of Lipid Order in Proteoliposomes Containing Cytochrome P-450 and its Reductase
  • The Mechanisms Involved in the Removal of Oxygen and Oxygen Radicals in the N2-Fixing Cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum
  • III. Energetics
  • The Role of Cations in the Photoinduced Electron Transport of Cyanobacteria
  • Halorhodopsin, the Light-Dependent Chloride Transport System of Halobacteria