Dynamics of Biochemical Systems

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hysteretic Enzymes, Slow Inhibition, Slow Activation, and Slow Membrane Binding....Pages 3-28
Rat-Liver Glucokinase as a Mnemonical Enzyme....Pages 29-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Subunit Interactions and Enzyme Kinetics: The Linkage Approach....Pages 45-64
Kinetics of Oxidative Decarboxylases....Pages 65-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Biochemical Dynamics in Organized States: A Holistic Approach....Pages 85-101
Channelling in Enzyme Complexes....Pages 103-114
Conformation Changes in the Assembly of the α 2 ß 2 Complex Of Tryptophan Synthase....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Electric Repulsion Effects and the Dynamic Behaviour of Enzymes Embedded in Biological Polyelectrolytes....Pages 133-155
Photobiochemical Memory....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
From Excitability and Oscillations to Birhythmicity and Chaos in Biochemical Systems....Pages 173-212
Dynamic Coupling and Time-Patterns of Glycolysis....Pages 213-226
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Biological Energy Conversions....Pages 227-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Evolution and Mutation of the Amino Acid Code....Pages 247-258
From Binding to Catalysis - Investigations Using Synthetic Peptides....Pages 259-272
Kinetics of Complex Selfreplicating Molecular Systems....Pages 273-295
Back Matter....Pages 297-303