Physical biochemistry is a branch of
biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...
that deals with the theory, techniques, and methodology used to study the
physical chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...
of
biomolecules.
It also deals with the mathematical approaches for the analysis of
biochemical reaction and the
modeling of biological systems. It provides insight into the structure of macromolecules, and how chemical structure influences the physical properties of a biological substance.
it involves the use of
Physics
Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
, physical chemistry principles, and methodology to study biological systems. It employs various physical chemistry techniques such as
chromatography
In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid solvent (gas or liquid) called the ''mobile phase'', which carries it through a system ( ...
,
spectroscopy,
Electrophoresis,
X-ray crystallography
X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...
,
Electron microscopy, and
hydrodynamics.
[Physical Biochemistry: Applications to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology]
See also
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Physical chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...
References
Biochemistry
Mathematical and theoretical biology
Physical chemistry
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