Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 294 pages
- Published by: Wiley-VCH
- Edition: 1st Edition March 20, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 3527312617
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-3527312610
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
" … a timely summary of our current picture of the raft concept … clarifies some misunderstood ideas." (
Future Medicine, August 2006)
" a timely summary of our current picture of the raft concept clarifies some misunderstood ideas." (Future Medicine, August 2006)
Product Description
This keenly awaited first overview of the field represents a complete guide to the structure and function of the most important mammalian cell membrane organelles. Filling a huge gap in the primary literature, this book is the first to cover the subject in detail.
Following an introduction by Kai Simons, the discoverer of lipid rafts and the most prominent scientist in the field, chapters include:
- Historical background
- Distinct structures and functions
- Structural basis
- Signaling
- Viral entry and virion budding
- Cholesterol transport
- Caveolins
- Lipid shells
- Cell polarity and intracellular trafficking
- Cancer cells
Of prime importance to molecular and cell biologists, biochemists, membrane scientists, cancer researchers, and virologists.
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