Tropomyosin / edited by Peter Gunning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunning, Peter, 1950-

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 644.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 644

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tropomyosins.

Tropomyosin.

Medical Subjects:

Tropomyosin.

Physical Description:

xix, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, [2008]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780387857657

0387857656

OCLC:

236052707