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Complexity and the structure of the living cell -- Elementary life processes viewed as dynamic physicochemical events -- Coupling between chemical and (or) vectorial processes as a basis for signal perception and transduction -- Control of metabolic networks under steady state conditions -- Compartmentalization of the living cell and thermodynamics of energy conversion -- Molecular crowding, transfer of information and channelling of molecules within supramolecular edifices -- Cell complexity, electrostatic partitioning of ions and bound enzyme reactions -- Dynamics and motility of supramolecular edifices in the living cell -- Temporal organization of metabolic cycles and structural complexity : oscillations and chaos -- Spatio-temporal organization during the early stages of development -- Evolution towards complexity.

The aim of this book is to show how supramolecular complexity of cell organization can dramatically alter the functions of individual macromolecules within a cell. The emergence of new functions which appear as a consequence of supramolecular complexity, is explained in terms of physical chemistry. The book is interdisciplinary, at the border between cell biochemistry, physics and physical chemistry. This interdisciplinarity does not result in the use of physical techniques but from the use of physical concepts to study biological problems. In the domain of complexity studies, most works are purely theoretical or based on computer simulation. The present book is partly theoretical, partly experimental and theory is always based on experimental results. Moreover, the book encompasses in a unified manner the dynamic aspects of many different biological fields ranging from dynamics to pattern emergence in a young embryo. The volume puts emphasis on dynamic physical studies of biological events. It also develops, in a unified perspective, this new interdisciplinary approach of various important problems of cell biology and chemistry, ranging from enzyme dynamics to pattern formation during embryo development, thus paving the way to what may become a central issue of future biology.

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