Actin-Binding Proteins and Disease

Actin-Binding Proteins and Disease

المؤلف
Cristobal G. Remedios, Deepak Chhabra
سنة النشر
2008
الناشر
Springer
لغة الملف
انكليزي
نوع الملف
Book
تصنيف الكتاب
Medical Science

This volume, written by experts in the field, is the first to deal with the relationship between human disease and the actin cytoskeleton. It provides overviews of actin and selected actin-binding proteins, and then focuses on diseases that involve these proteins. Specific chapters deal with actin, cofilin, profilin, gelsolin and thymosin ¾4. Other chapters discuss the roles of multiple actin-binding proteins in cancer and metastasis, leukocyte disorders, and heart failure, and there is a chapter that describes how intracellular pathogens use the host actin cytoskeleton. This seminal volume is intended for researchers, clinicians, physicians, and graduate students in the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology, immunology, and genetics.


الكلمات المفتاحية: Biomedical and life sciences / Immune System / Migration / Cell division / Cellular processes / Gene expression / Intracellular pathogens / Leukocytes / Proteins