ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE V13

• Molecular Biologists
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An Editorial Board composed of renowned experts from all over the world – Nobel laureates, including the 2007 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Sir Martin Evans, Lasker Award winners and directors of prestigious institutes and university departments – guarantees the high quality and comprehensive scope of this work. All major disciplines comprising and supporting molecular cell biology and molecular medicine are covered in true Encyclopedic detail.

Each of the over 400 articles is conceived as a self-contained treatment and begins with an outline and a keyword section, including definitions. Descriptive illustrations – many in colour -, informative tables and a glossary of basic terms in each volume enable readers to understand articles without the need to consult a dictionary, textbook or other work. Numerous cross-references and a comprehensive bibliography round off every article.

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Editor-in-Chief.

Editorial Board.

List of Contributors.

Color Plates.

Sex Hormones (Male): Analogs and Antagonists (Robert W. Brueggemeier).

Shotgun Sequencing (SGS) (Jun Yu, Gane Ka-Shu Wong, Jian Wang, Huanming Yang).

Signaling Through JAKs and STATs: Interferons Lead the Way (Christian Schindler, Jessica Melillo).

Signal Transduction Mediated by Heptahelical Receptors and Heterotrimeric G Proteins (Terence E. H´ebert, John K. Northup, R. Victor Rebois).

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Blocks and Haplotypes: Human MHC Block Diversity (E.J. Yunis, J. Zuñiga, C.E. Larsen, M. Fernández-Viña, J. Granados, Z.L. Awdeh, C.A. Alper).

Skin, Molecular Cell Biology of (Annette Wysocki, Thomas Mustoe, Gregory Schultz).

Somatic Gene Therapy (M. Schweizer, E. Flory, C. Múnk, Uwe Gottschalk, K. Cichutek).

Spatial and Temporal Expression Patterns in Animals (Werner E.G. Müller).

Sphingolipid and Glycolipid Biology (Anthony H. Futerman).

Stem Cells (Stewart Sell).

Stem Cells, Adult (Jason H. Pomerantz, Helen M. Blau).

Stem Cells, Embryonic (Mahendra Rao).

Stem Cells (Human Embryonic) and Cancer (Maty Tzukerman, Karl Skorecki).

Stem Cells in the Adult Brain: Their Identification and Role in Neurogenesis (Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Erica L. Jackson).

Streptomyces, Molecular Biology of (Paul Herron, Emma Tilley, Iain Hunter).

Stress-Induced Expression of Heat Shock Proteins and Action of the Heat Shock Protein Effectors (Bernd Bukau, Elizabeth A. Craig, Richard I. Morimoto, Arthur L. Horwich).

Structure-based Drug Design and NMR-based Screening (David J. Craik, Richard J. Clark).

Structure, Function and Biogenesis of Peroxisomes (Joel M. Goodman).

Superantigens (Matthew D. Baker, K. Ravi Acharya).

Supermolecular Protein Complexes (Jianpeng Ma).

Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy (Nebojsa S. Marinkovic, Mark R. Chance).

Glossary of Basic Terms.

The Twenty Amino Acids that are Combined to Form Proteins in Living Things/

The Twenty Amino Acids with Abbreviations and Messenger RNA Code Designations.

Complementary Strands of DNA with Base Pairing.