Molecular Mechanisms of Exocytosis

• Main Author: Regazzi, Romano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Neurosciences.; Cell biology.; Neurobiology.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.

Exocytosis is a fundamental cellular process that is used by eukaryotic cells to release a variety of biological compounds including peptide hormones and neurotransmitters or to insert specific lipids and proteins in the plasma membrane. In recent years, a multidisciplinary approach promoted an extr...

Table of Contents:

• Exocytosis
• Regulation of SNARE Complex Assembly by Second Messengers
• Rab GTPases and Their Role in the Control of Exocytosis
• The Role of Synaptotagmin and Synaptotagmin-Like Protein (Slp) in Regulated Exocytosis
• The Synapsins and the Control of Neuroexocytosis
• Phospholipase D
• Lipid Rafts as Regulators of SNARE Activity and Exocytosis
• Mast Cells as a Model of Nonneuroendocrine Exocytosis
• Acrosomal Exocytosis
• Nonsecretory, Regulated Exocytosis
• Adaptation of the Secretory Machinery to Pathophysiological Conditions.