1st Edition
Secretory Systems and Toxins
492 Pages
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CRC Press
475 Pages
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CRC Press
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This volume deals with the relationships between toxins and one of the most fundamental processes in any living cell - the secretory cycle. The reader will find up-to-date information on secretion, generated by experts in this fast evolving field. In the last decade extensive molecular and cellular studies have exposed the molecular similarity among most known secretory systems. In this book... Read more
1. Synaptic Vesicle Proteins - A Molecular Study 2. Dissection of the Secretory Machinery 3. Regulatory Roles for Lipids in Vesicle Trafficking and Secretion 4. Fusion Proteins and the Fusion Events 5. Chromaffin Cells as a Secretory System - The Use of Neurotoxins 6. Botulinum Neurotoxins and Their Substrates 7. Purification, Function and Selectivity in a-Latrotoxin 8. The Synapsins and Neurotransmission 9. Morphological Studies of the Secretory Machinery Using Neurotoxin Probes 10. Molecular Mechanisms of the Action of Clostridium botulinum Type B Neurotoxin 11. Neurotoxins and Safety-Latches of the Secretory Process
Biography
Michal Linial, Alfonso Grasso, Phillip Lazarovici
