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1. MDR/PGP Auxin Transport Proteins and Endocytic Cycling

   Auxin is an essential regulator of plant growth and development. Polarized transport of auxin is responsible for apical dominance, tropic growth,...

   Joshua J. Blakeslee, Wendy Ann Peer, Angus S. Murphy in Plant Endocytosis

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2. Somatic Embryogenesis in Genera Medicago: an Overview

   This chapter outlines the details of somatic embryogenesis in genera Medicago. Various factors that influence the process of somatic embryo...

   A. Iantcheva, M. Vlahova, A. Atanassov in Somatic Embryogenesis

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3. Somatic Embryogenesis of Pine Species: From Functional Genomics to Plantation Forestry

   Several economically important tree species belong to the genus Pinus and many of them form the ecological base of forest ecosystems. Pine wood is...

   Hely Häggman, Jaana Vuosku, ... Karoliina Niemi in Somatic Embryogenesis

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4. Screening and Analysis of Pollen Tube Mutations

   Although the cytology of the cellular aspects of male gametophytic development has been very well described for several species, molecular...

   Hélène Guermonprez, Fabien Nogué, Sandrine Bonhomme in The Pollen Tube

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5. Senescence and Cell Cycle Control

   In response to various stresses, such as telomere shortening during continuous proliferation, oxidative stress, DNA damage and aberrant oncogene...

   Hiroaki Kiyokawa in Cell Cycle Regulation

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6. Chromatin Modifications in DNA Repair

   A requirement of nuclear processes that use DNA as a substrate is the manipulation of chromatin in which the DNA is packaged. Chromatin...

   Ashby J. Morrison, Xuetong Shen in Chromatin Dynamics in Cellular Function

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7. Quality control of proteins in the mitochondrion

   The quality control of proteins within mitochondria is ensured by conserved and ubiquitous ATP-dependent molecular chaperones and proteases, present...

   Mark Nolden, Brigitte Kisters-Woike, ... Martin Graef in Chaperones

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8. The Hsp60 chaperonins from prokaryotes and eukaryotes

   The Hsp60 molecular chaperones (the chaperonins) are essential proteins throughout biology. They can be separated into two evolutionary classes: the...

   M. Giulia Bigotti, Anthony R. Clarke, Steven G. Burston in Chaperones

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9. Regulation of the heat shock response by heat shock transcription factors

   The heat shock response is characterized by a rapid and robust increase in heat shock proteins upon exposure to protein-damaging stresses. This...

   Ville Hietakangas, Lea Sistonen in Chaperones

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10. Template-induced protein misfolding underlying prion diseases

    Proteins with prion properties are closely associated to a class of fatal neurodegenerative illnesses in mammals and to the emergence and propagation...

    Luc Bousset, Nicolas Fay, Ronald Melki in Chaperones

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11. Systems Biology: necessary developments and trends

    At the end of this definition of Systems Biology through exampling, we discuss ambitions, goals, and challenges relating to this new discipline. We...

    Lilia Alberghina, Stefan Hohmann, Hans V. Westerhoff in Systems Biology

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12. 12 Baker’s Yeast: a rising foundation for eukaryotic sphingolipid-mediated cell signaling

    Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been an invaluable tool for the dissection of sphingolipid metabolic pathways and cloning of enzymes involved in...

    L. Ashley Cowart, Yusuf A. Hannun in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis

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13. 1 Phospholipid synthesis in mammalian cells

    Phospholipids are the main components of biological membranes and as such act as the major permeability barrier between cells and the extracellular...

    Christopher R. McMaster, Trevor R. Jackson in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis

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14. 2 Phospholipid synthesis and dynamics in plant cells

    Phospholipids represent the second family of lipids after the galactolipids in photosynthetic tissues and the first in non-photosynthetic tissues....

    Jean-Jacques Bessoule, Patrick Moreau in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis

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15. Modeling Calcium Waves

    We present an introduction to the mathematics of calcium waves, both intracellular and intercellular. After a discussion of the earlier models I...

    James Sneyd, Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova in Understanding Calcium Dynamics

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16. Regulation of IP 3 Receptors by IP 3 and Ca 2+

    Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate ( IP 3) receptors are intracellular Ca 2+ channels that mediate release of Ca 2+ from intracellular stores. The channels...

    Colin W. Taylor, Jane E. Swatton in Understanding Calcium Dynamics

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17. Hormone-Mediated Intercellular Calcium Signalling in an Insect Salivary Gland – Pathways and Mechanisms

    The salivary glands of the blowfly Calliphora vicina are a favourable preparation for investigations into spatio-temporal Ca 2+ dynamics in an intact...

    Bernhard Zimmermann, Bernd Walz in Understanding Calcium Dynamics

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18. From Simple to Complex Ca 2+ Oscillations: Regulatory Mechanisms and Theoretical Models

    Intracellular Ca 2+ oscillations most often appear as regular spikes. However, complex Ca 2+ oscillations in the form of bursting or chaos have also...

    G. Dupont, G. Houart, A. Goldbeter in Understanding Calcium Dynamics

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19. 11 Plant sphingolipids

    Plants contain a multiplicity of sphingolipid metabolites, such as long-chain bases, long-chain base phosphates, ceramides, glycosylceramides,...

    Petra Sperling, Dirk Warnecke, Ernst Heinz in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis

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20. 5 Sterol metabolism and functions in higher plants

    Higher plants synthesize a bewildering array of sterols, with sitosterol, stigmasterol, and 24-methylcholesterol as major compounds. All plant...

    Marie-Andrée Hartmann in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis

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