Bioelectrochemistry III

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Molecular Mechanisms of Ion Transport: New Insights by Patch-Clamp Studies

   • R. Hedrich, W. Stühmer, B. U. Keller

   Pages 1-14

3. Protein Translocation Across Biological Membranes

   • Franz-Ulrich Hartl

   Pages 15-34

4. Electrical Currents Induced by Ion Pumps on Black Lipid Membranes

   • Ernst Bamberg, Klaus Fendler

   Pages 35-53

5. The Measurement of Surface Potentials and Transmembrane Potentials in Cells and Organelles

   • Hagai Rottenberg

   Pages 55-74

6. Factors Controlling the Ion Conductance of Channels

   • Marco Colombini

   Pages 75-97

7. Molecular Aspects of the Neurotransmission by the Acetylcholine Receptor System

   • Eberhard Neumann

   Pages 99-123

8. Cytochrome c Oxidase: Structure

   • Roberto Bisson

   Pages 125-175

9. Bacteriorhodopsin-Structure and Function

   • L. Keszthelyi

   Pages 177-211

10. The Metals of Cytochrome C Oxidase and their Role in the Kinetics of Electron Transfer and Proton Pumping

    • Francesco Malatesta, Giovanni Antonini, Paolo Sarti, Maurizio Brunori

    Pages 213-230

11. Mechanism of Ca2+ Translocation as Studied by the use of Detergent-Solubilized and Membrane Preparations of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase

    • Jesper Møller

    Pages 231-246

12. The Structure of the ATP-Synthase from Chloroplasts

    • Peter Gräber, Bettina Böttcher, Egbert J. Boekema

    Pages 247-276

13. Kinetics of Proton-Transport Coupled ATP Synthesis in Chloroplasts

    • Peter Gräber

    Pages 277-309

14. Charge Effects in Electromagnetic Stimulation of Biosynthesis

    • Martin Blank, Reba Goodman

    Pages 311-324

15. Back Matter

    Pages 325-337

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This book contains aseries of review papers related to the lectures given at the Third Course on Bioelectrochemistry held at Erice in November 1988, in the framework of the International School of Biophysics. The topics covered by this course, "Charge Separation Across Biomembranes, " deal with the electrochemical aspects of some basic phenomena in biological systems, such as transport of ions, ATP synthesis, formation and maintenance of ionic and protonic gradients. In the first part of the course some preliminary lectures introduce the students to the most basic phenomena and technical aspects of membrane bioelectrochemistry. The remaining part of the course is devoted to the description of a selected group of membrane-enzyme systems, capable of promoting, or exploiting, the processes of separation of electrically charged entities (electrons or ions) across the membrane barrier. These systems are systematically discussed both from a structural and functional point of view. The effort of the many distinguished lecturers who contributed to the course is aimed at offering a unifying treatement of the electrogenic systems operating in biological membranes, underlying the fundamental differences in the molecular mechanisms of charge translocation.

• ATP
• ATP-Synthase
• ATPase
• Chloroplast
• Lipid
• cells
• electrochemistry
• electromagnetic

• Bioelectrochemical Society, Rome, Italy

  G. Milazzo

• College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA

  M. Blank

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