MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF CELL BIOLOGY
Table of Contents
Chapter 34: Self-Assembling Macromolecular Complexes
- 34.1 Basic Principles of Spontaneous Self-Assembly
- 34.2 Tubulin, Microtubules, and Related Structures
- 34.3 Virus Structure and Function
- 34.4 Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- 34.5 Spherical and Icosahedral Viruses
- 34.6 Membrane-Coated Viruses
Chapter 35: Membrane Transport
- 35.1 Passive Diffusion
- 35.2 Facilitated Diffusion
- 35.3 Active Transport Systems
- 35.4 Transport Processes Driven by ATP
- 35.5 Transport Processes Driven by Light
- 35.6 Transport Processes Driven by Ion Gradients
- 35.7 Group Translocation
- 35.8 Specialized Membrane Pores
- 35.9 Ionophore Antibiotics
Chapter 36: Muscle Contraction
- 36.1 The Morphology of Muscle
- 36.2 The Molecular Structure of Skeletal Muscle
- 36.3 The Mechanism of Muscle Contraction
- 36.4 Control of the Contraction-Relaxation Cycle by Calcium
Channels and Pumps
- 36.5 Regulation of Contraction by Ca2+
- 36.6 The Structure of Cardiac and Smooth Muscle
- 36.7 The Mechanism of Smooth Muscle Contraction
Chapter 37: The Molecular Basis of Hormone Action
- 37.1 Classes of Hormones
- 37.2 Signal-Transducing Receptors Transmit the Hormonal Message
- 37.3 Intracullular Second Messengers
- 37.4 GTP-Binding Proteins: The Hormonal Missing Link
- 37.5 The 7-TMS Receptors
- 37.6 Specific Phospholipases Release Second Messengers
- 37.7 Calcium As a Second Messenger
- 37.8 Protein Kinase C Transduces the Signals of Two Second
Messengers
- 37.9 The Single-TMS Receptors
- 37.10 Steroid Receptors
Chapter 38: Excitable Membranes, Neurotransmission,
and Sensory Systems
- 38.1 The Cells of Nervous Systems
- 38.2 Ion Gradients: Source of Electrical Potentials in Neurons
- 38.3 The Action Potential
- 38.4 The Voltage-Gated Sodium and Potassium Channels
- 38.5 Cell-Cell Communication at the Synapse
- 38.6 Other Neurotransmitters and Synaptic Junctions
- 38.7 Sensory Transduction