Dynamic Plasma Membranes: Portals Between Cells and Physiology

This volume focuses on the recent advances in understanding plasma membrane organization and function beginning with simple systems and extending to specialized membrane domains of vertebrate cells.

List of contents

1. A Molecular Look at Membranes
Max Berkowitz
2. Where Biology Meets Physics - A Converging View on Membrane Microdomain Dynamics
Nicolas Destainville, Thomas H. Schmidt and Thorsten Lang
3. Plasma Membrane Repair in Health and Disease
Alexis R. Demonbreun and Elizabeth M. McNally
4. Local Palmitoylation Cycles and Specialized Membrane Domain Organization
Yuko Fukata, Tatsuro Murakami, Norihiko Yokoi and Masaki Fukata
5. An Adaptable Spectin/Ankyrin-Based Mechanism for Long-Range Organization of Plasma Membranes in Vertebrate Tissues
Vann Bennett and Damaris N. Lorenzo
6. The Axon Initial Segment, Fifty Years Later: A Nexus for Neuronal Organization and Function
Christophe Leterrier

Product details

• Assisted by: Vann Bennett (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2016
• EAN: 9780128054048
• ISBN: 978-0-12-805404-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 16 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Current Topics in Membranes
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, Cellular biology (cytology)