Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology: Electrogenic Cl? Transporters in Biological Membranes Volume 19

Gerencser, G.A.; Ahearn, G.A.; Anderson, P.A.V.; Blair, K.L.; Cattey, M.A.; Chang, X.B.; Forte, J.G.; Gerencser, G.A.; Goldberg, A.F.X.; Gradmann, D.; Hanrahan, J.W.; Hara, M.; Inagaki, C.; Inoue, M.; Lanyi, J.K.; Moffett, D.F.; Reenstra, W.W.; Riordan, J.R.; Sanders, D.; Tabcharani, J.A.; White, J.F.; Wolf, A.; Zelezna, B.

Biological cell membranes regulate the transfer of matter and informa­ tion between the intracellular and extracellular compartments as basic survival and maintenance functions for an organism: This volume contains a series of reviews that are concerned with how biological plasma membranes regulate the transport of chloride between the intracellular and extracellular compartments of a cell. This book is also an attempt to analyze the molecular basis for the movement of chloride across a cell membrane. This volume is devoted to a diversity of electrogenic chloride transport mechanisms in representative cell membranes of all living things. The first section of the book (Chaps. 1-4) focuses on mech­ anisms of primary active chloride transport (i.e. photon or A TP-driven), while the second section (Chaps. 5-6) centers on secondary active chloride transporters (symport and antiport) in both plant and animal plasma membranes. The last section, which comprises seven chapters (Chaps. 7-13), deals with chloride channels in cell membranes of prokaryocytes and eukaryocytes of most every phylum. It is hoped that with this particular ordering the reader can glean a telescopic view of the evolutionary history of the various electrogenic chloride transporters.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2011-12-30

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783642782633

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-78261-9

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 264