Current Topics in Membranes is targeted toward scientists and researchers in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology, providing the necessary membrane research to assist them in discovering the current state of a particular field and in learning where that field is heading. This volume covers recent breakthroughs in understanding the molecular and cellular basis for patterning vertebrate plasma membranes. A special emphasis is placed on physiological function with chapters covering signaling in the nervous system and heart, vision, and the immune system. consolidates subjects normally dispersed in the literaturepresents in one volume a subject that has undergone a recent molecular revolutionauthors are primary contributors and in some cases the founding figures in their fields INDICE: Spectrin- and Ankyrin-Based Membrane Domains and the Evolution of VertebratesVann Bennett and Damaris N. LorenzoThe Human Erythrocyte Plasma Membrane: A Rosetta Stone for Decoding Membrane -Cytoskeleton StructureVelia M. FowlerMembrane Protein Dynamics and Functional Implications in Mammalian CellsFrancis J. Alenghat and David E. GolanEvolving Form to Fit Function: Cardiomyocyte Intercalated Disc and Transverse-Tubule MembranesCrystal F. Kline and Peter J. MohlerExcitable Domains of Myelinated Nerves: Axon Initial Segments and Nodes of RanvierKae-Jiun Chang and Matthew N. RasbandMicrodomains of SNARE Proteins in the Plasma MembraneGeert van den Bogaart, Thorsten Lang and Reinhard JahnPhotoreceptor Inner and Outer SegmentsSheila A. Baker and Vasily KerovThe Evolutionary Origin of Epithelial Cell-Cell Adhesion MechanismsPhillip W. Miller, Donald N. Clarke, William I. Weis, Christopher J. Lowe and W. James NelsonCell Biology Meets Physiology: Functional Organization of Vertebrate Plasma Membranes - The immunological synapseSilvia Curado, Sudha Kumari and Michael L. Dustin
- ISBN: 978-0-12-417027-8
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha Publicación: 24/12/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés