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Cell Fusions

Regulation and Control

By: Lars-Inge Larsson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 November 2010

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Cell fusions are important to fertilization, placentation, development of skeletal muscle and bone, calcium homeostasis and the immune defence system. Additionally, cell fusions participate in tissue repair and may be important to cancer development and progression. A large number of factors appear to regulate cell fusions, including receptors and ligands, membrane domain organizing proteins, proteases, signaling molecules and fusogenic proteins forming alpha-helical bundles that bring membranes close together. The purpose of the planned volume is to sum up current knowledge about mechanisms regulating and controlling cell fusions. The field has expanded vastly within the past few years and leaders in the field will be invited to contribute with current overviews of their specific areas of knowledge. Attention will be paid both to true fusogens like proteins encoded by the viral (e.g. HIV), caenorhabdidtis (EFF) mammalian and human (e.g. syncytins and Pb-1) genomes as well as to mechanisms regulating the activities of the fusogens. The commitment of cells to fuse represents an irreversible step. It stands to reason that a number of factors controlling and safe-guarding these mechanisms must exist. It seems equally reasonable to assume that many of these mechanisms are redundant in different systems. By bringing together experts working in each their system there is a fair chance that a consensus concerning the mechanistics of cell fusions may develop.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Biology, Life Sciences Molecular Biology Nature & The Natural World Medicine Medicine in General Medical Equipment & Techniques Medical Research Cellular Biology Pre-Clinical Medicine & Basic Sciences

Regulation and Control of Cell-Cell Fusions	p. 1
Retroviruses and Cell Fusions: Overview	p. 11
Retroviral Membrane Fusions: Regulation by Proteolytic Processing and Cellular Factors	p. 41
A Comparative Portrait of Retroviral Fusogens and Syncytins	p. 63
Syncytins: Molecular Aspects	p. 117
Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton Within FuRMAS During Drosophila Myoblast Fusion and First Functionally Conserved Factors in Vertebrates	p. 139
Role of CD9 in Sperm-Egg Fusion and Its General Role in Fusion Phenomena	p. 171
Gamete Binding and Fusion	p. 185
Mechanisms Regulating Human Trophoblast Fusion	p. 203
Macrophage Fusion: The Making of a New Cell	p. 219
Molecules Regulating Macrophage Fusions	p. 233
Current Progress Towards Understanding Mechanisms of Myoblast Fusion in Mammals	p. 249
The Endogenous Envelope Protein Syncytin Is Involved in Myoblast Fusion	p. 267
Cell Fusion and Stem Cells	p. 277
Cell Fusion and Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccines	p. 315
Cancer Cell Fusion with Myeloid Cells: Implications for Energy Metabolism in Malignant Hybrids	p. 351
Cell-Cell Fusions and Human Endogenous Retroviruses in Cancer	p. 395
Index	p. 427
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