Edited by
J. Ricard, Université Paris, Institut Jacques MONOD, France
Description
The aim of this book is to show how supramolecular complexity of cell organization can dramatically alter the functions of individual
macromolecules within a cell. The emergence of new functions which appear as a consequence of supramolecular complexity, is explained
in terms of physical chemistry.
The book is interdisciplinary, at the border between cell biochemistry, physics and physical chemistry.
This interdisciplinarity does not result in the use of physical techniques but from the use of physical concepts to study biological
problems.
In the domain of complexity studies, most works are purely theoretical or based on computer simulation. The present book
is partly theoretical, partly experimental and theory is always based on experimental results. Moreover, the book encompasses in a unified
manner the dynamic aspects of many different biological fields ranging from dynamics to pattern emergence in a young embryo.
The
volume puts emphasis on dynamic physical studies of biological events. It also develops, in a unified perspective, this new interdisciplinary
approach of various important problems of cell biology and chemistry, ranging from enzyme dynamics to pattern formation during embryo
development, thus paving the way to what may become a central issue of future biology.
Included in series
New Comprehensive Biochemistry
