Tropomyosin / edited by Peter Gunning.
| Other author | Gunning, Peter, 1950- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, ©2008. |
| Description | xix, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 644 Advances in experimental medicine and biology v. 644. ^A103 |
| Contents | Introduction and historical perspective / Peter Gunning -- Structure and evolution of tropomyosin genes / Bernadette Vrhovski, Nadine Thézé, and Pierre Thiébaud -- Tropomyosin exons as models for alternative splicing / Clare Gooding and Christopher W.J. Smith -- Tropomyosin gene expression in vivo and in vitro / Galina Schevzov and Geraldine O'Neill -- Tropomyosin : function follows structure / Sarah E. Hitchcock-DeGregori -- Dimerization of tropomyosins / Mario Gimona -- Cooperative binding of tropomyosin to actin / Larry S. Tobacman -- Tropomyosin and the steric mechanism of muscle regulation / William Lehman and Roger Craig -- Role of tropomyosin in the regulation of contraction in smooth muscle / Steve Marston and M. El-Mezgueldi -- Tropomyosin as a regulator of cancer cell transformation / David M. Helfman ... [et al.] -- The role of tropomyosin in heart disease / David F. Wieczorek, Ganapathy Jagatheesan and Sudarsan Rajan -- Tropomyosins in skeletal muscle diseases / Anthony J. Kee and Edna C. Hardeman -- Tropomyosins in human diseases : ulcerative colitis / Kiron M. Das and Manisha Bajpai -- Tropomyosin function in yeast / David Pruyne -- Isoform sorting of tropomyosins / Claire Martin and Peter Gunning -- Human tropomyosin isoforms in the regulation of cytoskeleton functions / Jim Jung-Ching Lin ... [et al.] -- Tropomyosins regulate the impact of actin binding proteins on actin filaments / Uno Lindberg ... [et al.] -- Tropomyosin and ADF/cofilin as collaborators and competitors / Thomas B. Kuhn and James R. Bamburg -- Caldesmon and the regulation of cytoskeletal functions / C.-L. Albert Wang -- Tropomyosins as discriminators of myosin function / E. Michael Ostap -- Tropomodulin/tropomyosin interactions regulate actin pointed end dynamics / Alla S. Kostyukova -- Emerging issues for tropomyosin structure, regulation, function and pathology / Peter Gunning. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008032000 |
| ISBN | 9780387857657 |
| ISBN | 0387857656 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WE 500 T856 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |