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An updated edition on membrane biology, providing new high resolution structures of membrane proteins and insights into how they function.
List of contents
Dedication; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The diversity of membrane lipids; 3. Tools for studying membrane components; 4. Proteins in or at the bilayer; 5. Bundles and barrels; 6. Functions and families; 7. Protein folding and biogenesis; 8. Diffraction and simulation; 9. Membrane enzymes; 10. Membrane receptors; 11. Transporters; 12. Channels; 13. Electron transport and energy transduction; 14. In pursuit of complexity; Appendix I. Abbreviations; Appendix II. Single-letter codes for amino acids; Index.
About the author
Mary Luckey is Professor Emerita in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Francisco State University. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley with the first identification of an iron transport protein in the bacterial outer membrane. Her postdoctoral work demonstrated the specificity of the E. coli maltoporin in proteoliposomes. While continuing research on maltoporin structure and function, she has taught biochemistry for over 25 years, including the graduate-level membrane biochemistry course that provided the impetus for this book.
Summary
This textbook provides a strong foundation and comprehensive overview for students and an invaluable synthesis of cutting-edge research for working scientists. This second edition is expanded to include and make accessible all the latest developments and topics, with more than twenty new high resolution structures. Links between membrane research and human health are emphasised throughout.
