Interdisciplinary Conference on Carriers and Channels in Biological Systems.
Abstract
Cell membranes have a vital and indispensable function for life processes. Membranes endow various cells with their specific function. Therefore, membranes contain highly specific molecules that can function as: carriers, pumps, channels and receptors. These various transport and recognition systems regulate the cell function. Thus membranes, for example, are the site of two most important energy conversion systems in biology - photosynthesis and oxidative-phosphorylation. Photosynthesis represents light conversion into chemical bond energy and oxidative-phosphorylation represents nutrient energy conversion into chemical bond energy. Thus in the past decades investigators have been pursuing to understand the nature of membrane carriers, channels, gates and receptors. The overall objective of this conference was to assist in defining and search for new ways into the problems associated with the elucidation of the molecular basis of passive and acitve ion translocation across cellular membranes. The conference helped focus the attention into the importance of isolating transport protein carriers and channels from membranous systems. Furthermore, the conference brought to the attention of the scientific audience at the meeting and at large (through the publication of the proceedings) the numerous reconstitution procedures recently developed to study more accurately functional aspects of individual proteins. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 24, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA086007
Entities
People
- Adil E. Shamoo
Organizations
- New York Academy of Sciences