| Edited by Ian M. Møller , and Peter Brodelius , both at Lund University, Sweden.
Plant cell membranes regulate nutrient uptake, act as receptors for environmental signals, protect the cell against pathogen attack, and catalyze energy-conserving processes in the mitochondria and the chloroplasts. This book contains twenty-three chapters by specialists in various aspects of plant membrane biology, providing a view of new and recent developments in the field.
Contents: Introduction; Signal Transduction:; Small GTP-binding proteins in plants; Inositides and plant cell signalling; Nuclear genes involved in chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas ; Photoregulation of the uptake of NO_, NO-, and CI by the green alga Monoraphidium braunii ; Biochemical analysis of photoreceptor proteins in microorganisms; Flowering and plasma membrane properties of spinach leaves; Biogenesis and Turnover:; Protein import into mitochondria; Mechanisms and energetics of thylakoidal protein transport; To come; Intraorganellar sorting of chloroplast proteins; Redox Processes:; NADH-ferricyanide reductases in plant membranes; Bifunctional role of the bc complex of spinach leaf mitochondria, as oxidoreductase and as general processing pentidase; Engineering of the D1 polypeptide in the cvyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803; Dynamics of Membrane Domains; Domains in biological membranes: a study on the organization of the chloroplast thykaloid membrane; Formation and disintegration of lamellar cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum: regulatory aspects; Studies on the phosphorylation and dephosphyorylation reactions of the thykaloid membrane proteins using synthetic peptides; Specific blocking of complex formation in thykaloid membranes by peptide fragments of the light harvesting complex I; Transport Across Membranes; Structure-function analyses of vacuolar H pyrophosphatase; Plant and fungal plasma membrane H -ATPases: how alike are they with respect to regulation?; "Non-detergent behaviour" of Brij 58, a polyoxyethylene acyl ether, creates membrane vesicles of uniform sidedness; Identification of the malate transporter in the tonoplast; Index.
310 pages, halftones, line figures, tables, Clarendon Press, May 1996 0-19-857776-1, Hardback, was £75.00, now £56.25 |
