The actin cytoskeleton /

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Imprint:	Cham : Springer, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2214-8019 ; volume 235 Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 235.
Subject:	Actin. Actin Cytoskeleton -- physiology. Actins -- physiology. Actin.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11270663

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Other authors / contributors:	Jockusch, B. M. (Brigitte M.), 1939- editor.
ISBN:	9783319463711 3319463713 9783319463698 3319463691
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from pdf title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 26, 2017).
Summary:	"Actin is one of the most abundant proteins and ubiquitously expressed in all eukaryotes. In recent years, the analysis of structure and function of such complexes has shed new light on actin's role in cellular and tissue morphogenesis, locomotion and various forms of intracellular motility, but also on its role in nuclear processes like chromatin architecture and transcription. Progress in understanding these different physiological phenomena, but also in unravelling the basis of actin-based pathophysiological processes has been made by combining video microscopy, molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry. Thus, the current research on actin, as ongoing in many international laboratories, is a "hot spot" in basic and translational research in life sciences. In this book on "The Actin Cytoskeleton", twelve internationally renowned authors present specific chapters that cover their recent work concerned with the various roles of actin mentioned above. This comprehensive volume is therefore an attractive handbook for teachers and students in many fields of medicine and pharmacology"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Actin cytoskeleton. Cham : Springer, [2017] 9783319463698

Table of Contents:

Mammalian actins: isoform-specific functions and diseases / Christophe Ampe, Marleen Van Troys
Assembly and maintenance of myofibrils in striated muscle / Joseph W. Sanger, Jushuo Wang, Yingli Fan, Jennifer White, Lei Mi-Mi, Dipak K. Dube [and others]
Myosins: domain organisation, motor properties, physiological roles and cellular functions / Thomas A. Masters, John Kendrick-Jones, Folma Buss
Actin filament structures in migrating cells / Jaakko Lehtimäki, Markku Hakala, Pekka Lappalainen
Signalling pathways controlling cellular actin organization / Anika Steffen, Theresia E.B. Stradal, Klemens Rottner
Adp-ribosylation and cross-linking of actin by bacterial protein toxins / Klaus Aktories, Carsten Schwan, Alexander E. Lang
Common themes in cytoskeletal remodeling by intracellular bacterial effectors / Guy Tran Van Nhieu, Stéphane Romero
Viruses that exploit actin-based motility for their replication and spread / N. Bishara Marzook, Timothy P. Newsome
Multiscale view of cytoskeletal mechanoregulation of cell and tissue polarity / Chen Luxenburg, Benjamin Geiger
Molecular control of actin dynamics in vivo: insights from drosophila / Lena Brüser, Sven Bogdan
From cytoskeleton to gene expression: actin in the nucleus / Tiina Viita, Maria K. Vartiainen
What we know and do not know about actin / Thomas D. Pollard.

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