| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1. Structure and Function of Mortalin / Birth of Mortalin: Multiple Names, Niches and Functions Connecting Stress, Senescence and Cancer / Renu Wadhwa and Sunil C. Kaul -- Mortalin's Machinery / Custer C. Deocaris, Sunil C. Kaul and Renu Wadhwa -- The Role of Mortalin in Iron Homeostasis / Wen-I Luo and James A. Cowan -- Functional Characteristics of Mortalin / Walter A. Baseler, Tara L. Croston and John M. Hollander -- Part 2. Mortalin in Evolution2 Deocaris / Mortalin and Drosophila DmHsp22: Two Mitochondrial Chaperones Regulating Aging and Carcinogenesis / Marie Le Pécheur, Geneviève Morrow and Robert M. Tanguay -- Mortalin in Invertebrates and The Induction of Apoptosis by Wild-Type p53 Following Defeat of Mortalin-Based Cytoplasmic Sequestration in Cancerous Clam Hemocytes / Charles W. Walker, Ben Low and S. Anne Böttger -- Mortalin and Stem Cells: A Study from Planarians / Renata Batistoni -- Part 3. Mortalin in Health and Disease / Mortalin in Cell Protection from Immune Attack / Moran Saar, Oren Moskovich and Zvi Fishelson -- Mortalin in Neurological Diseases / Jinghua Jin, Jing Zhang, Travis J. Cook and Jake G. Hoekstra -- Loss of Mortalin Function in Parkinson's Disease-Supporting the Mitochondrial Pathway of Neurodegeneration / Lena F. Burbulla and Rejko Krüger -- Hsp75/mortalin and Protection from Ischemic Brain Injury / Robin E. White, Yi-Bing Ouyang and Rona G. Giffard -- Catecholamine Regulated Protein (CRP40), A Splice Variant of Mortalin-2: Functional Role in CNS Disorders / Joseph P. Gabriele, Sarah E. Groleau, Ritesh P. Daya, Zdenek B. Pristupa and Ram K. Mishra -- Chaperonopathies: Diseases in Which Mortalin and Other Hsp-Chaperones Play a Role in Etiology and Pathogenesis / Alberto J.L. Macario, Francesco Cappello and Everly Conway de Macario -- Part 4. Mortalin and Cancer / Many Faces of Mortalin and Tid1 / Ohad Iosefson and Abdussalam Azem -- Mortalin: A Positive Regulator of Centrosome Duplication and Amplification / Masayuki Kanai and Kenji Fukasawa -- Mortalin Expression in Normal and Neoplastic Tissues / Angheliki Nomikos, Sinclair R. Dundas and Graeme I. Murray -- Mortalin-p53 Interaction as a Target for Liver Cancer Therapy / Wen-Jing Lu, Nikki P. Lee, Renu Wadhwa and John M. Luk -- Mortalin Targeting Gadgets for Cancer Therapy / Chae-Ok Yun and Renu Wadhwa -- Part 5. Mortalin Based Technologies / Cell Internalizing Anti-Mortalin Antibody for Generation of Illuminating MSCs for Long-Term In vitro and In vivo Tracking / Toshimasa Uemura, Masanori Nishi, Sunil C. Kaul and Renu Wadhwa -- Mortalin Staining Pattern as a Reporter for Cell Based Anti-Cancer Drug Screening / Ran Gao, Zeenia Kaul, Tomoko Yaguchi and Renu Wadhwa -- Cell Internalizing Anti-mortalin Antibody as a Nanocarrier / Zeenia Kaul, Tomoko Yaguchi, Renu Wadhwa and Sunil C. Kaul |
| Summary |
The phrase Life, stress and death connects three terms, but is there a biological basis for that? Are there molecules that are essential to/or mediate these phenomena? This contributory volume Mortalin Biology: Life, Stress and Death is a remarkable compilation of the research outcomes on the stress protein mortalin, a member of heat shock 70 family of proteins. The book is unique as it describes mortalin playing essential role in life, stress response and death either from cancer, when it becomes hyperactive or from neuro-degeneration, when it becomes hypoactive. The book provides up-to-date knowledge on mortalin with respect to its discovery, structure, evolutionary conservation, function and signal transduction in different organisms in a simple, but most comprehensive way, that besides offering an enjoyable and in-depth reading, prompts the reader to ask further questions to explore this protein with new ideas, approaches and experiments. Twenty-one chapters by the world leaders on the specific areas of mortalin research throw light on its multi-functionality, potentials for biotechnology, diagnostics and therapeutic values. Avenues of mortalin biology, yet unexplored, hold immense promises for future, and reading this volume provides an easy, enthusiastic and energetic head-on start |
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Medicine |
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Oncology |
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Medical genetics |
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Neurosciences |
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Biomedicine |
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Molecular Medicine |
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Gene Function |
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Cancer Research |
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biomedische wetenschappen |
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neoplasms |
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nanotechnologie |
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nanotechnology |
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neurowetenschap |
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neuroscience |
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geneeskunde |
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moleculaire genetica |
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molecular genetics |
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Medicine (General) |
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Geneeskunde (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Heat shock proteins.
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HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins
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Heat-Shock Proteins
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
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Heat shock proteins
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaul, Sunil
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Wadhwa, Renu
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| ISBN |
9789400730274 |
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9400730276 |
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9400730268 |
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9789400730267 |
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9400730284 |
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9789400730281 |
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