Molecular energy bioenergetics

The mechanism by which man obtains and utilizes energy—bioenergetics—is clearly one of the most fundamental problems in molecular biology. Its intrinsic interest is sufficient to justify the use of scientific and technical resources to unravel this mechanism. But the so-called energy crisis that the world is facing may make it urgent that some problems of bioenergetics are solved more rapidly than would be predicted by the present tempo of research. 

Lehninger, A. L. (1971). Bioenergetics. The Molecular Basis of Biological Energy Transformation (2nd edn.). Menlo Park Benjamin/Cummings. 

Introduction to the Molecular Bioenergetics of Electron, Proton, and Energy Transfer... 

Figure 1. Simplified overview of major, molecular-level processes involved in bioenergetics. Reaction centers store light energy by reducing cofactors and bacteriorhodopsin converts light to a proton gmdient. Eventiially, concentration gradients and ATP provide biochemically useful energy.

Molecular bioenergetics simulations of electron, proton, and energy transfer / Ralph A. Wheeler, editor sponsored by the ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. 

Lehninger, A.L. Bioenergetics The molecular basis of biological energy transformations. New York W.A. Benjamin 1965... 

A. L. Lehminger, Bioenergetics The Molecular Basis of Biological Energy Transformations , W. A. Benjamin, New York, 1965. 

Independently of McClare, similar ideas have been put forward by one of us [1, 2] who elaborated on the concept of molecular machines for enzyme catalysis and energy transduction in chemical and biochemical systems. A central point of this concept was founded on the notion of the crucial role of the conformational relaxation of biopolymers in catalyzing biochemical processes. We will consider the application of this relaxation concept to enzymo-logy and bioenergetics in Chapters 4 and 5. We now focus our attention on the general principles of energy transduction by molecular machines. 

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