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Principles of Brownian and Molecular Motors

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  1. José Antonio Fornés

    1. Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

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  • Offers detailed explanations for fast understanding the complex subject of molecular motors
  • Written in a simple way for easy comprehension
  • Includes Matlab Code in order to better understand the theory

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Biophysics (BIOPHYSICS, volume 21)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Brownian Ratchets and Molecular Motors

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    Pages 1-14

  3. The Fokker-Planck Equation

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    Pages 15-24

  4. Biased Brownian Motion

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    Pages 25-47

  5. The Smoluchowski Model

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    Pages 49-63

  6. Rotation of a Dipole

    • José Antonio Fornés
    Pages 65-80

  7. Ratchet Dimer Brownian Motor with Hydrodynamic Interactions

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    Pages 81-110

  8. Fluctuations of the Proton Electromotive Force Across Inner Mitochondrial Membrane

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    Pages 111-121

  9. Quantum Ratchets

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    Pages 123-148

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 149-194
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About this book

Molecular motors convert chemical energy (typically from ATP hydrolysis) to directed motion and mechanical work. Biomolecular motors are proteins able of converting chemical energy into mechanical motion and force. Because of their dimension, the many small parts that make up molecular motors must operate at energies only a few times greater than those of the thermal baths. The description of molecular motors must be stochastic in nature. Their actions are often described in terms of  Brownian Ratchets mechanisms. In order to describe the principles used in their movement, we need to use the tools that theoretical physics give us. In this book we centralize on the some physical mechanisms of molecular motors.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

    José Antonio Fornés

About the author

Prof. Dr. José Antonio Fornés studied Physics at La Plata University, Argentina, where he received his doctoral degree in Physics in 1972. In 1973 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Quantum Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden. In 1974 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Middlesex Hospital Medical School of London University, in experimental biophysics. He was visiting Professor at the University of California at Irvine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, during 1989-1991. Also, he was visiting Professor at the Department of Physics of São Paulo University, Brazil, during 1998-2001. He was visiting professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, during 2005-2006. He has been full Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the Federal University of Goiás during 1981-1998, and retired after that. His research interests comprise electrical fluctuations in molecular systems, molecular biophysics, hydrodynamic fluctuations as well as molecular motors



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles of Brownian and Molecular Motors

  • Authors: José Antonio Fornés

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Biophysics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64957-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64956-2Published: 05 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64959-3Published: 05 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64957-9Published: 04 February 2021

  • Series ISSN: 0932-2353

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-2561

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 194

  • Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biochemistry, general

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