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Dyneins: Structure, Biology and Disease, Second Edition, offers a broad view of dyneins mechanics, dysfunction, and disease, providing an overview of dyneins from structure and function, to dysfunction and disease. Since the first edition, enormous strides have been taken in understanding dynein structure, its organization in the axoneme, single molecule motor mechanics, and the consequences of defects for human biology, disease, and development. To account for these enormous strides, the second edition is extensively revised. Additionally, the coverage has expanded from 24 to 42 chapters, and is now housed in two volumes. Much of the expanded coverage occurs in Volume 2 which focuses on dynein dysfunction and disease, such as the role of dynein and cancer. Volume 1 covers the history and evolution of dyneins, dyneins in ciliary biology, and cytoplasmic dynein biology, while Volume 2 covers the structure and mechanics of dynein motors and dynein dysfunction and disease. Presents a broad-based and up-to date view of dynein mechanics, dysfunction, and diseaseContains approaches from genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics discussedProvides companion website with movies of dynamic cell behaviorIncludes extensive chapters written by leading, global experts.

Cytoskeletal proteins. --- Dynein.

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Axons. --- Cytoskeletal proteins. --- Cell organelles.

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Cytoskeletal proteins --- Post-translational modification --- Extracellular matrix --- Cytoskeletal Proteins --- Extracellular Matrix --- congresses

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Cytoskeletal proteins. --- Dynein. --- Adenosine triphosphatase --- Microtubules --- Structural proteins --- Proteins

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This book, by a leading thinker with 30 years experience in the field, is the first devoted to fibrous composites in biology. It tackles a major unsolved problem in developmental biology - how does chemistry create architecture outside cells? Fibrous composites occur in all skeletal systems including plant cell walls, insect cuticles, moth eggshells, bone and cornea. They function like man-made fibreglass, with fibres set in a matrix. The fibrous molecules are long, extracellular and water-insoluble and to be effective they must be orientated strategically. The underlying hypothesis of this book is that the fibres are orientated by self-assembly just outside the cells during a mobile liquid crystalline phase prior to stabilization. The commonest orientations of the fibres are plywood laminates (orthogonal and helicoidal), and as parallel fibres. These may be imitated in vitro by liquid crystalline chemicals. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach and will be relevant to biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, material scientists and to liquid crystals chemists.

Cytoskeleton --- Fibrous composites. --- Developmental biology. --- Cytoskeletal proteins. --- Glycoproteins. --- Formation.