Endres, Robert G.,

Physical principles in sensing and signaling : with an introduction to modeling in biology / Robert G. Endres, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013. - xi, 145 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Chemotaxis in bacterium Escherichia coli -- Physical concepts -- Mathematical tools -- Signal amplification and integration -- Robust precise adaptation -- Polar receptor localization and clustering -- Accuracy of sensing -- Motor impulse response -- Optimization of pathway -- "Seeing like a bacterium" -- Beyond E. coli chemotaxis -- Appendix more techniques.

"This textbook is aimed at newcomers in the field of biological physics, especially motivated undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a mathematical and physical background, taking interest in the area of quantitative biology"--

9780199600632 (hbk.) 0199600635 (hbk.) 9780199600649 (pbk.) 0199600643 (pbk.)


Cell interaction.
Cellular signal transduction.
Chemotaxis.
Escherichia coli.
Biophysics.
Cell Communication--physiology.
Cell Movement--physiology.
Models, Biological.
Signal Transduction.
Biophysics.
Cell interaction.
Cellular signal transduction.
Chemotaxis.
Escherichia coli.

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