Intracellular Messengers / Edition 1

by Alan A. Boulton, Glen B. Baker, Colin W. Taylor

Overview

Despite the success of earlier Neuromethads volumes, I was initially reluctant to edit a further volume because my own - search is concerned with nonneural tissues. I changed my mind for two simple reasons. First, though the sheer diversity of ext- cellular signal molecules is staggering, still more impressive is the remarkably small number of transmembrane signaling processes they recruit- their receptors either have integral ion channels or enzyme activities, or else they catalytically activate G proteins. Likewise, when we look to the final intracellular t- gets of these signaling pathways, they are stucturally diverse, but again there are common themes: the response may either be the gating of an ion channel, or else the phosphorylation of a target protein. Such conservation of signaling mechanisms is both impressive and convenient, and provides my justification for asking authors with interests in diverse tissues to contribute their methodological expertise to this volume. Second, I think it would be difficult to overestimate the extent to which our understanding of intracellular signaling has been transformed by new and improved methodology. Thus, simple methods for measuring inositol phosphates have revealed the profound and widespread importance of the ph- phoinositide pathways, the techniques of contemporary - lecular biology have provided unrivaled opportunities to relate structure and function, and the complex spatial and t- poral characteristics of intracellular signaling pathways were barely imaginable before the introduction of fluorescent indi- tors and single cell-imaging technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896032071
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	02/27/1992
Series:	Neuromethods , #20
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

Identification and Analysis of Function of Heterotrimeric Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Proteins Expressed in Neural Tissue.- Methods for the Analysis of Phosphoinositides and Inositol Phosphates.- Inositol Triphosphate Receptors and Intracellular Calcium.- Measurement of Intracellular Calcium with Fluorescent Calcium Indicators.- Single-Cell Imaging Technology.- Analysis of Protein Kinase C Function.- Synthetic Analogs of Intracellular Messengers.- Methods in Cyclic Nucleotide Research.- Caged Intracellular Messengers and the Inositol Phosphate Signaling Pathway.- Protein Phosphorylation.- Investigation of the Intracellular Regulators and Components of the Exocytotic Pathway.- Intracellular Messengers in Vertebrate Photoreceptors.- Intracellular Messengers in Invertebrate Photoreceptors Studied in Mutant Flies.

Editorial Reviews

An extensive review of current knowledge of intracellular information processing....comprehensive....[Offers] a valuable extension to 'classical' neurobiology and provides new tools in neurochemistry.-Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

From the Publisher

Thirteen contributions cover: single-cell imaging technology, phosphorylation of target proteins, analysis of phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates, inositol triphosphate and intracellular calcium, guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, ion channel gating, measurement of intracellular calcium, protein kinase C, synthetic analogs, cyclic nucleotides, caged intracellular messengers, the exocytotic pathway, and vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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