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Title Brush Border Membranes
Published Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Series Novartis Foundation Symposia ; v. 851
Novartis Foundation Symposia
Contents Brush border membranes; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Introductory remarks on the brush border; Microvillar endopeptidase, an enzyme with special topological features and a wide distribution; Discussion; Aminopeptidases and proteolipids of intestinal brush border; Discussion; Structure of microvillar enzymes in different phases of their life cycles; Discussion; Specific labelling of the hydrophobic domain of rat renal y-glutamyltransferase; Discussion; Biosynthesis and assem- bly of the largest and major intrinsic polypeptide of the small intestinal brush borders; Discussion
Use of monoclonal antibodies in the study of intestinal structure and functionDiscussion; Biosynthesis and transport of plasma membrane glyco- proteins in the rat intestinal epithelial cell: studies with sucrase- isomaltase; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION I Biosynthesis and assembly of brush border proteins: (i) some co-translational models for protein insertion into membranes; molecular sizes of brush border enzymes during assembly; Distribution of enteropeptidase and aminopeptidase to non-brush border sites; General functions of the enterocyte
Molecular architecture of the microvillus cytoskeletonDiscussion; Structure of human placental microvilli; Discussion; Regulation of cytoskeletal structure and contractility in the brush border; Discussion; Characterization of membrane glycoproteins involved in attachment of microfilaments to the microvillar membrane; Discussion; Structural and functional relationship between the membrane and the cytoskeleton in brush border microvilli; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION II A pathological condition due to congenital disorganization of the brush border
Conformational changes in the a-subunit, and cation transport by Na+, K+-ATPaseDiscussion; Properties of immunoglobulin G-Fc receptors from neonatal rat intestinal brush borders; Immunoglobulin G receptors of intestinal brush borders from neonatal rats; Discussion after the preceding two papers; Cotransport systems in the brush border membrane of the human placenta; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION III Cytoskeleton and membrane-cytoskeleton interactions; The importance of structure for understanding the biosynthetic process; Future advances in study of brush border cytoskeleton
Photo-affinity labelling to identify components of the neutral amino acid carrier in the intestinal microvillar membraneChairman's closing remarks; Index to contributors; Subject index
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Subject Cell membranes -- Congresses
Cell physiology -- Congresses
Cell membranes
Cell physiology
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780470718469
0470718463