Molecular biology of membranes : structure and function /
This well-organized, 'user friendly', and profusely illustrated work fills the need for an up-to-date textbook on the structure and function of biological membranes. In addition to the traditional topics covered in membrane biology courses, it discusses recent findings provided by cDNA clo...
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New York :
Plenum,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to biological membranes
- What membranes do
- Diversity of modern biological membranes
- Brief historical sketch of membrane research
- Lipids, oligomers and proteins
- Membrane lipids
- Oligometric membrane ionophores
- Membrane proteins
- Carbohydrates and cytoskeletal components
- Membrane carbohydrates
- Membrane skeletons
- Supramolecular membrane structures / X-ray and electron diffraction and image processing
- Transmission electron microscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Bioenergetics: putting membranes to work
- Importance to proton pumping
- Photosynthetic membranes
- Mitochondrial membranes: the respiratory chain
- Payoff: transducing proton potential into ATP
- Transport across membranes
- Molecular transport
- Macromolecular and bulk transport
- Receptors and responses
- Receptors: an introduction
- Channel receptors: the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
- RGC receptors: the [beta]-adrenergic receptors
- Polypeptide hormone receptors: the insulin receptor
- Adherence receptors
- Survey of signaling strategies and their cytoskeletal communication.
- (cont) Membrane fusion, formation and flow
- Fusion
- Biosynthesis of membrane lipids, proteins and carbohydrates and their translocation across membranes
- Biosynthetic membrane flow
- Membranes in cancer
- Phenotypic properties of cancer cells and their membranes
- Aberrant membrane signals of oncogene products potentiate cell growth
- Expression of membrane P-glycoproteins allows cancer cells to evade chemotherapy
- Role of membranes in metastasis and invasion
- Tumor-specific antigens.