Table Of ContentPROGRESS IN
BIOPHYSICS &
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
An International Review Journal
Volumes 71 and 72
Volume Contents, Author Index and Subject Index
©
PERGAMON
Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology
November 1999
EDITORS
D. NOBLE, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford OX1 3PT
T. L. BLUNDELL, University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry,
Cambridge CB2 1OW
T. PAWSON, Samuel Lunenfeld Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto,
Canada M5G 1X5
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 71
Number 1
Foccussed Issue
Mechano-electric feedback of the heart
Editors Note
Mechano-electric feedback in the heart
D. Noble
Preface
M. Lab
Mechanosensitivity as an integrative system in heart: an audit
M. J. Lab
Modulation of ions channels and membrane receptors
activities by mechanical interventions in cardiomyocytes:
possible mechanisms for mechanosensitivity
Olivier Cazorla, Caroline Pascarel, Fabien Brette and
J.-Y. Le Guennec
The role of calcium in the response of cardiac muscle to
stretch
S.C. Calaghan and E. White
Stretch-induced changes in heart rate and rhythm: clinical
observations, experiments and mathematical models
P. Kohl, P. Hunter and D. Noble
Cardiac mechano-electric feedback in man: clinical relevance
P. Taggart and P. M. I. Sutton
Number 2
Stability and folding of domain proteins
R. Jaenicke
Ab initio characterization of building units in peptides and
proteins
A. G. Csaszar and A. Perczel
Numbers 3-4
Focussed Issue
Signal Transduction
Editors Introduction
T. Pawson
The catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase:
prototype for an extended network of communication
C. M. Smith, E. Radzio-Andzelm, Madhusudan, P. Akamine
and S. S. Taylor
Structural analysis of receptor tyrosine kinases
S. R. Hubbard
Recognition and regulation of primary-sequence motifs by
signaling modular domains
Z. Songyang
Regulation of antigen receptor function by protein tyrosine
kinases
J. Bubeck-Wardenburg, J. Wong, K. Fiitterer, R. Pappu, C. Fu,
G. Waksman and A. C. Chan
Adaptor proteins and T-cell antigen receptor signaling
L. E. Samelson
The STAT family of proteins in cytokine signaling
K. Shuai
The role of SHIP in growth factor induced signalling
M. Huber, C. D. Helgason, J. E. Damen, M. Scheid,
V. Duronio, L. Liu. M. D. Ware, R. K. Humphries and
G. Krystal
Signaling through focal adhesion kinase
D. D. Schlaepfer, C. R. Hauck and D. J. Sieg
MAP kinase pathways
M. H. Cobb
Applications of mass spectrometry to signal transduction
K. A. Resing and N. G. Ahn
The protein kinase resource and other bioinformation
resources
C. M. Smith
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 72
Number 1
Genome-based structural biology
Dmitrij Frishman and Hans-Werner Mewes
Understanding the structure and function of catalases: clues
from molecular evolution and in vitro mutagenesis
Marcel Zamocky and Franz Koller
Hormonal control of cardiac ion channels and transporters
Y. Shimoni
Number 2
Regulation of transmitter release from retinal bipolar cells
M. Tachibana
Annealing in crystallography: a powerful optimization tool
Axel T. Brunger, Paul D. Adams and Luke M. Rice
Evolution of the genetic code
Brian K. Davis
Number 3
Density modification for macromolecular phase improvement
Kevin D. Cowtan and Kam Y. J. Zhang
The evolutionary transition from monomeric to oligomeric
proteins: tools, the environment, hypotheses
Giuseppe D’Alessio
The F-box: a new motif for ubiquitin dependent proteolysis in
cell cycle regulation and signal transduction
Karen L. Craig and Mike Tyers
Number 4
Dynamics of intrinsic electrophysiological properties in spinal
cord neurones
Raul E. Russo and Jorn Hounsgaard
Structure and dynamics of membrane proteins as studied by
infrared spectroscopy
José Luis R. Arrondo and Felix M. Goni
