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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.
List of contents
- Spectrin- and Ankyrin-Based Membrane Domains and the Evolution of Vertebrates
Vann Bennett and Damaris N. Lorenzo - The Human Erythrocyte Plasma Membrane: A Rosetta Stone for Decoding Membrane -Cytoskeleton Structure
Velia M. Fowler - Membrane Protein Dynamics and Functional Implications in Mammalian Cells
Francis J. Alenghat and David E. Golan - Evolving Form to Fit Function: Cardiomyocyte Intercalated Disc and Transverse-Tubule Membranes
Crystal F. Kline and Peter J. Mohler - Excitable Domains of Myelinated Nerves: Axon Initial Segments and Nodes of Ranvier
Kae-Jiun Chang and Matthew N. Rasband - Microdomains of SNARE Proteins in the Plasma Membrane
Geert van den Bogaart, Thorsten Lang and Reinhard Jahn - Photoreceptor Inner and Outer Segments
Sheila A. Baker and Vasily Kerov - The Evolutionary Origin of Epithelial Cell-Cell Adhesion Mechanisms
Phillip W. Miller, Donald N. Clarke, William I. Weis, Christopher J. Lowe and W. James Nelson - Cell Biology Meets Physiology: Functional Organization of Vertebrate Plasma Membranes - The immunological synapse
Silvia Curado, Sudha Kumari and Michael L. Dustin
