The Biochemistry of Retinoid Signaling II The Physiology of Vitamin A - Uptake, Transport, Metabolism and Signaling /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Asson-Batres, Mary Ann (Editor), Rochette-Egly, Cecile (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 81
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene expression.; Nutrition.; Biochemistry.; Plant biochemistry.; Proteins.; Systems biology.; Biomedicine.; Gene Expression.; Animal Biochemistry.; Protein Science.; Plant Biochemistry.; Systems Biology.

The role of vitamin A in living organisms has been known throughout human history. In the last 100 years, the biochemical nature of vitamin A and its active derivative, retinoic acid, its physiological impact on growth processes, and the essential details of its mechanism of action have been reveale...

Table of Contents:

• Preface, Mary Ann Asson-Batres and Cecile Rochette-Egly
• In Memorium
• 1 Carotenoids and Retinoids: Nomenclature, Chemistry, and Analysis, Earl H. Harrison and Robert W. Curley, Jr
• 2 Functions of Intracellular Retinoid Binding-Proteins, Joseph L. Napoli
• 3 Vitamin A Transport and Cell Signaling by the Retinol-Binding Protein Receptor STRA6, Noa Noy
• 4 Vitamin A Absorption, Storage and Mobilization, William S. Blaner, Yang Li, Jason J. Yuen, Seung-Ah Lee, and Robin D. Clugston
• 5 Retinoic Acid Synthesis and Degradation, Natalia Y. Kedishvili
• 6 Cellular Retinoic Acid Binding Proteins: Genomic and Non-Genomic Functions and their Regulation, Li-Na Wei
• 7 Non-Classical Transcriptional Activity of Retinoic Acid, Noa Noy
• 8 Vitamin A as PKC Co-factor and Regulator of Mitochondrial Energetics, Ulrich Hammerling
• 9 Vitamin A and Vision, John C Saari
• Index.