Biology of the chemotactic response
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Biology of the chemotactic response
（Symposia of the Society for General Microbiology, 46）
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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"Forty-sixth Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology jointly organised with the British Society for Cell Biology, held at the University of York, December 1990"--T.p.
"Published for the Society for General Microbiology."
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The tendency of a living organism to move to a more favourable environment is a natural but complex reaction, involving the integration of sometimes conflicting environmental stimuli as well as a coordinated mechanical response. The response of motile, single cell organisms to environmental stimuli provides a useful model for understanding first of all how the environment is monitored and sensed, and secondly how this information is processed to result in an integrated and coordinated response. The volume looks at a large number of well-studied examples of the chemotactic response, in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and casts new light on how cells process information and react to their environment. This fundamental response is of great importance in understanding one of the characteristic features of living organisms.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' preface
- Conceptual problems with kinesis and taxis G. A. Dunn
- 1. Strategies for chemotaxis H. J. Schnitzer
- 2. Perspectives and models of gradient perception R. R. Tranquillo
- 3. Genetics, structure, and assembly of the bacterial flagellum R. M. Macnab
- 4. Transducers: transmembrane receptor proteins involved in bacterial chemotaxis G. L. Hazelbauer
- 5. Signalling complexes in bacterial chemotaxis P. Matsumra
- 6. Flagella biogenesis in Caulobacter A. Dingwall
- 7. Methylation-independent taxis in bacteria J. P. Armitage
- 8. Control of directed motility in Myxococcus xanthus D. R. Zusman
- 9. Signal transduction in Halobacterium halobium D. Oesterhelt and W. Marwan
- 10. Mutational studies of amoeboid chemotaxis using Dictyostelium discoideum J. E. Segall
- 11. Chemotaxis of Dictyostelium: the signal transduction pathway to actin and myosin P. C. Newell
- 12. Chemosensory transduction in Paramecium J. Van Houten
- 13. Leucocyte chemotaxis: a perspective P. C. Wilkinson
- 14. Signal transduction in leucocytes: the linkage between receptor and motor P. H. Naccache
- 15. Tissue-derived leucocyte attractant factors in inflammation K. B. Bacin
- Index
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