NATO advanced study institutes series : Series A, Life sciences ;
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v. 11
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"Lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute ... held in Bellagio, Italy, September 13-21, 1975."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Section I. Membrane structure and receptor function -- The fluid mosaic model of membrane structure: some applications to ligand-receptor and cell-cell interactions / S.J. Singer -- Structure and function of membranes and the role of the plasma membrane in metabolic regulations / Efraim Racker -- Section II. Cell-cell interactions -- Cellular recognition in slime molds: evidence for its mediation by cell surface species-specific lectins and complementary oligosaccharides / Samuel H. Barondes and Steven D. Rosen -- Multiple lectins in two species of cellular slime molds / William A. Frazier [and others] -- Receptors mediating cell aggregation in Dictyostelium discoideum / Gunther Gerisch -- Cell surface components mediating the reaggregation of sponge cells / James E. Jumblatt [and others] -- Isolation of a Hansenula wingei mutant with an altered sexual agglutinin / Venancio Sing, Yar-Fen Yeh and Clinton E. Ballou -- The mating phenomenon in Escherichia coli / Mark Achtman -- Neuronal cell adhesion / Luis Glaser [and others] -- Evidence for a gradient of adhesive specificity in the developing chick retina / David I. Gottlieb, Kenneth Rock and Luis Glaser -- Section III. Cell-macromolecule interactions -- Membrane receptors for bacterial toxins / W.E. van Heyningen -- Gangliosides as possible membrane receptors for cholera toxin / C.A. King -- Binding and uptake of the toxic lectins abrin and ricin by mammalian cells / Sjur Olsnes [and others] -- Studies on an hepatic membrane receptor specific for the binding and catabolism of serum glycoproteins / Gilbert Ashwell and Anatol G. Morell -- Concanavalin A induced changes of membrane-bound lysolecithin acyltransferase of thymocytes / Clay E. Reilly and Ernst Ferber -- Cooperative regulation of hormone binding affinity for cell surface receptors / Pierre De Meyts -- Specific interaction of nerve growth factor with receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems / Ralph A. Bradshaw [and others] -- Studies on the molecular properties of nerve growth factor and its cellular biosynthesis and secretion / Michael Young [and others] -- Specific binding and ability of vasoactive intestinal octacosapeptide (VIP) to activate adenylate cyclase in isolated pancreatic acinar cells from the guinea pig / Jean Christophe [and others] -- [Alpha]-melanotropin receptors: non-identical hormonal message sequences (active sites) triggering receptors in melanocytes, adipocytes and CNS cells / Alex Eberle and Robert Schwyzer -- Endothelial proliferation factor / B. Haber [and others] -- Evidence for a macromolecular effector of cell differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum amoeba / Michel Darmon, Claudette Klein and Philipe Brachet -- Section IV. Cell-small molecule interactions -- Conformational changes of the cholinergic receptor protein in Torpedo marmorata as revealed by quinacrine fluorescence / Hans-Heinrich Grünhagen and Jean-Pierre Changeux -- Cholinergic sites in skeletal muscle / Richard R. Almon and Stanley H. Appel -- Appearance of specialized cell membrane components during differentiation of embryonic skeletal muscle cells in culture / Joav M. Prives -- Affinity partitioning of receptor-rich membrane fractions and their purification / Steven D. Flanagan, Samuel H. Barondes and Palmer Taylor -- Biochemical and molecular characteristics of [beta]-adrenergic receptor binding sites / Lee E. Limbird and Robert J. Lefkowitz -- Characterization of the [beta]-adrenergic receptor and the regulatory control of adenylate cyclase / Alexander Levitzki -- Chemotaxis in bacteria / Julius Alder -- Cyclic AMP receptors at the surface of aggregating Dictyostelium discoideum cells / Dieter Malchow, David Robinson and Fritz Eckstein -- Cyclic AMP receptor activity in developing cells of Dictyostelium discoideum / Christopher D. Town -- Prostaglandin F₂[subscript alpha] receptors in corpora lutea / William S. Powell [and others].