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David Garrod, Professor of Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
A.J. North, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
M.A.J. Chidgey, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
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Description
The aim of "The Adhesive Interaction of Cells" has been to assemble a series of reviews by leading international experts embracing many
of the most important recent developments in this rapidly expanding field. The purpose of all biological research is to understand the
form and function of living organisms and, by comprehending the normal, to find explanations and remedies for the abnormal and for disease
conditions. The molecules involved in cell adhesion are of fundamental importance to the structure and function of all multicellular
organisms. In this book, the contributors focus on the systems of vertebrates, especially mammals, since these are most relevant to human
disease. It would have been equally possible to concentrate on developmental processes and adhesion in lower organisms.
A major
function of adhesion molecules is to bind cells to each other or to the extracellular matrix, but they are much more than "glue". Adhesions
in animal tissues must be dynamic-forming, persisting, or declining in regulated fashion- to facilitate the mobility and turnover of
tissue cells. Moreover, the majority of adhesion molecules are transmembrane molecules and thus provide links between the cells and their
surroundings. This gives rise to another major function of adhesion molecules, the capacity to transduce signals across the hydrophobic
barrier imposed by the plasma membrane. Such signal transduction is crucially important to many aspects of cellular function including
the regulation of cell motility, gene expression, and differentiation.
The work in this book progresses through four sections. Part
I discusses the four major families of adhesion molecules themselves, the integrins (Green and Humphries), the cadherins (Stappert and
Kemler), the selectins (Tedder et al.) and the immunoglobulin superfamily (Simmons); part 2 considers junctional complexes involved in
cell interactions: focal adhesions and adherens junctions (Ben Ze'ev), desmosomes (Garrod et al.), and tight junctions (Citi and Cordenonsi).
The signaling role of adhesion molecules is the focus of part 3, through integrins and the extracellular matrix (Edwards and Streuli),
through platelet adhesion (Du and Ginsberg), and in the nervous system (Hemperley). In part 4, the aim is to show how adhesive phenomena
contribute to important aspects of cell behavior and human health. Leukocyte trafficking (Haskard et al.), cancer metastasis (Marshall
and Hart), cell migration (Paleck et al.), and implantation and placentation (Damsky et al.) are the topics considered in depth.
The different sections are, of course, not mutually exclusive: it is both undesirable and impossible to separate structure from function
when considering cell adhesion. Each chapter has its unique features, but some overlap is both invevitable and valuable since it provides
different perspectives on closely related topics. We hope that the whole contributes a valuable and stimulating consideration of this
important topic.
Contents
Contents. List of Contributors. Preface (D.R. Garrod). Part I Adhesion Molecules and their Ligands. The Molecular Anatomy of Integrins
(L.J. Green and M.J. Humphries). The Cadherin Superfamily (J. Stappert and R. Kemler). The Selectins and their Ligands: Adhesion Molecules
of the Vasculature (T.F. Tedder, X. Li, and D.A. Steeber). The Immunoglobulin Superfamily (D.L. Simmons). Part II. Organization of Adhesion
Complexes. Focal Adhesions and Adherens Junctions: their Role in Tumorigenesis (A. Ben-Ze'ev). Desmosomal Adhesion (D.R. Garrod, C. Tselepis,
S.K. Runswick, A.J. North, S.R. Wallis, and M.A.J. Chidgey). The Molecular Basis for the Structure, Function, and Regulation of Tight
Junctions (S. Citi and M. Cordenonsi). Part III Signaling by Adhesion Molecules. Activation of Integrin Signaling Pathways by Cell Interactions
with Extracellular Matrix (F.M. Edwards and C.H. Streuli). Signaling and Platelet Adhesion (X. Du and M.H. Ginsberg). Signaling by Cell
Adhesion Molecules in the Nervous System (J.J. Hemperly). Part IV Adhesive Processes. Vascular Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecules and
the Control of Leukocyte Traffic in Cutaneous Inflammation (D.O. Haskard, J.C. Mason, and J. McHale). The Role of Adhesion in Metastasis:
Potential Mechanisms and Modulation of Integrin Activity (J.F. Marshall and I.R. Hart). Integrin Adhesion in Cell Migration (S.P. Palecek,
E.A. Cox, A. Huttenlocher, D.A. Lauffenburger, and A.F. Horwitz). Adhesion Receptors: Critical Effectors of Trophoblast Differentiation
during Implantation and Placentation (C.H. Damsky, Y. Zhou, O. Genbacev, J. Cross, and S.J. Fisher). Index.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7623-0495-0
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