
Channels, Carriers, and Pumps
An Introduction to Membrane Transport
Description
Key Features
- Provides an introduction to the properties of transport proteins: channels, carriers, and pumps
- Presents up-to-date information on the structure of transport proteins and on their function and regulation
- Includes introductions to transport kinetics and to the cloning of genes that code transport proteins
- Furnishes a link between the experimental basis of the subject and theoretical model building
Readership
Cell biologists, biophysicists, physiologists, biochemists, neurobiologists, pharmacologists, and graduate students in these disciplines
Table of Contents
Chapters
Structural Basis of Movement Across Cell Membranes
Simple Diffusion of Nonelectrolytes and Ions
Ion Channels Across Cell Membranes
Carrier-Mediated Transport: Facilitated Diffusion
Coupling of Flows of Substrates: Antiporters and Symporters
Primary Active Transport Systems
The Regulation and Integration of Transport Systems
Appendices
Single and Triple-Letter Codes for the Amino Acids
Fundamental Constants, Conversion Factors, and Some Useful Approximations
The Relation between the Permeability Coefficient Ps and the Half-Time t1/2 of Entry of a Permeant
Product details
- No. of pages: 422
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: December 9, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780124165793
- eBook ISBN: 9780124165830
About the Authors
Wilfred Stein

Affiliations and Expertise
Thomas Litman
