Feature Boxes

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Abbreviations

Part 1  Introduction

  Whatis a cell?  3

  Vishwanath R.Lingappa and BenJamin Lewin

  Bioenergetics and cellular metabolism

  Raymond Ochs and George P[opper

  DNA replication, repair', and recombination

  Jocelyn E.Krebs

  Gene expression and regulation

  David G.Bear

  Protein structure and function

  Stephen .1.Smerdon

Part 2  Membranes and transport

  mechanisms

  Transport of ions and small molecules across

  membranes

  Stephan E.Lehnart and Andrew R.Marks

  Membrane targeting of proteins

  D.Thomas Rutkowski and Vishwanath R.Lingappa

  Protein trafficking between membranes

  Vivek Mathotra, Graham Warren, and Ira Me[[man

Part 3  The nucleus

  Nuclear structure and transport

  Charles N.Cole and Pamela A.Silver

  Chromatin and chromosomes

  Benjamin Lewin and Jocelyn E.Krebs

Part 4  The cytoskeleton

  Microtubu[es

  Lynne Cassimeris

  Actin

  Enrique M.De La Cruz and E.Michael Ostap

  Intermediate filaments

  Birgit Lane

Part 5  Cell division, apoptosis,

  and cancer

  Mitosis

  Conly L.Rieder

  Celt cycle regulation

  Kath[een L.Gould and Susan L.Forsburg

  Apoptosis

  Douglas R.Green

  Cancer--Principles and overview

  Robert A.Weinberg

Part 6  Cell communication

   Principles of cell signaling

  Et[iott M.Ross and Me[anie H.Cobb

  The extracellular matrix and celt adhesion

  George Ptopper

Part 7  Prokaryotic and plant cells

  Prokaryotic cell biology

  Matthew Chapman and Jeff Errington

  Plant cell biology

  Clive Lloyd

Glossary

Index