Description
Miami Winter Symposia, Volume 18: Cellular Responses to Molecular Modulators is a collection of papers presented at the 13th Miami Winter Symposium held in Miami Beach in 1981 through the joint effort of the University of Miami School of Medicine and the Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute.
Separating 27 manuscripts into chapters, this book begins with a discussion on protein structure and function. This topic is followed by considerable chapters devoted to a whole series of molecules that precisely and specifically modulate a particular behavior and that can be studied in detail in isolated cells in culture. These chapters also look into the research studies on mitogen receptor cytobiochemistry, including special insertion properties and internal migratory fate after binding to effectors. Other chapters discuss the primary gene product containing the thymosin α1 sequence; the purification and production of interferons from cell cultures; the biochemical mechanisms by which interferons modulate cell behavior; and the ability of interferons to regulate natural killer lytic activity at the single cell or population level. The concluding chapters explore the distinct interferon classes by their antigenic, biological, and chemical properties.
This book will be of great benefit to cell biologists and researchers.
Chapter
CHAPTER 2. DENSITY, ANCHORAGE, AND MOLECULAR MODULATORS. A REAPPRAISAL
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62 – 72
CHAPTER 3. ON THE REGULATION OF EUKARYOTIC CELL GROWTH: AN APPROACH TO THE BEHAVIOR OF NORMAL AND TRANSFORMED CELLS
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72 – 84
CHAPTER 4. Molecular Analysis of the Mitogenic Response to Platelet-Derived Growth Factor
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84 – 102
CHAPTER 5. POLYOMA HOST RANGE MUTANTS THAT REPLICATE IN EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA CELLS
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102 – 114
CHAPTER 6. MECHANISM OF MITOGENIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION IN HORMONE ACTION
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114 – 136
CHAPTER 7. THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AND THE CONTROL OF CELL PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION
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136 – 160
CHAPTER 8. THE ROLE OF THE RECEPTOSOME IN RECEPTOR–MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS
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160 – 172
CHAPTER 9. Na INFLUX AS A MITOGENIC SIGNAL FOR CULTURED FIBROBLASTIC CELLS
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172 – 192
CHAPTER 10. GROWTH FACTORS FROM THE PLATELET, THE MONOCYTE /MACROPHAGE AND THE ENDOTHELIAL CELL: THEIR POTENTIAL ROLE IN BIOLOGY
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192 – 206
CHAPTER 11. TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS PRODUCED BY HUMAN TUMOR CELLS: INTERACTION WITH EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR (EGF) MEMBRANE RECEPTORS
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206 – 228
CHAPTER 12. MECHANISM OF ACTION OF NERVE GROWTH FACTOR
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228 – 242
CHAPTER 13. COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR AND THE GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE PROGENITOR CELL 1
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242 – 260
CHAPTER 14. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF THYMOSIN
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260 – 274
CHAPTER 15. PRODUCTION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE N α -DESACETYL THYMOSIN α i IN ESCHERICHIA COLI THROUGH EXPRESSION OF A CHEMICALLY SYNTHESIZED GENE
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274 – 294
CHAPTER 16. PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LYMPHOKINE FRACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY 1
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294 – 310
CHAPTER 17. RECEPTOR AND NON–RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED, LYMPHOCYTE-DERIVED CELL–LYTIC MOLECULES 1
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310 – 334
CHAPTER 18. BIOSYNTHESIS OF THYMIC PEPTIDES
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334 – 354
CHAPTER 19. HOW MANY INTERFERONS ARE THERE?
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354 – 370
CHAPTER 20. THE 2-5A SYSTEM IN INTERFERON-TREATED AND CONTROL CELLS
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370 – 384
CHAPTER 21. INTERFERON–INDUCED ENZYMES: SYNTHESIS AND FUNCTION IN THE CELL–REGULATORY ACTION OF INTERFERONS
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384 – 408
CHAPTER 22. MECHANISMS OF INTERFERON ACTION ON CELL GROWTH AND ON MURINE LEUKEMIA, VESICULAR STOMATITIS, AND ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS VIRUSES
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408 – 426
CHAPTER 23. REGULATION OF CYTOTOXIC CELLS BY INTERFERON
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426 – 440
CHAPTER 24. INHIBITION OF CELL PROLIFERATION AND LOCOMOTION BY INTERFERON: MEMBRANE AND CYTOSKELETAL CHANGES IN TREATED CELLS
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440 – 466
CHAPTER 25. ANTICELLULAR ACTIVITY OF HUMAN INTERFERONS
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466 – 478
CHAPTER 26. THE HUMAN INTERFERONS
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478 – 518
CHAPTER 27. FREE COMMUNICATIONS
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518 – 578
INDEX OF AUTHORS
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578 – 582