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"--