Structure and function of the neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM
By: Vladimir Berezin, editor
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- 663; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- 663.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781441911698; 9781441911704
Subjects: Molecular neurobiology; Neurochemistry; Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules; Physiology; Ultrastructure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Structure and ligands of NCAM.  Structural biology of NCAM / Vladislav Soroka, Christina Kasper, Flemming M. Poulsen; title: Extracellular protein interactions mediated by the neural cell adhesion molecule, NCAM : heterophilic interactions between NCAM and cell adhesion molecules, extracellular matrix proteins, and viruses / Janne Nielsen, Nikolaj Kulahin, Peter S. Walmod; title: Intracelluar (i.e., Intracellular) ligands of NCAM / Bettina Büttner, Rüdiger Horstkorte; title: Role of ATP in the regulation of NCAM function / Martin V. Hübschmann, Galina Skladchikova; title: Part II. NCAM and plysialic acid.  Polysialylation of NCAM / Herbert Hildebrandt, Martina Mühlenhoff, Rita Gerardy-Schahn; title: Structural basis for the polysialylation of the neural cell adhesion molecule / Karen J. Colley; title: Role of PSA-NCAM in adult neurogenesis / Eduardo Gascon, Laszlo Vutskits, Jozsef Zoltan Kiss; title: Use of PSA-NCAM in repair of the central nervous system / Abderrahman El Maarouf, Urs Rutishauser; title: Part III. NCAM-mediated signal transduction.  Signaling pathways involved in NCAM-induced neurite outgrowth / Dorte Kornerup Ditlevsen, Kateryna Kolkova; title: Role of the growth-associated protein GAP-43 in NCAM mediated neurite outgrowth / Irina Korshunova, Mark Mosevitsky; title: Neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM and lipid rafts / Gro Klitgaard Povlsen, Dorte Kornerup Ditlevsen; title: The neural cell adhesion molecule and epidermal growth factor receptor : signaling crosstalk / Gro Klitgaard Polvsen; title: Part IV. NCAM metabolism; title: Biosynthesis of NCAM / Kateryna Kolkova.; title: Soluble NCAM / Thomas Secher; title: Part V. NCAM, synapses, emotions, and memory.  Role of NCAM in spine dynamics and synaptogenesis / D. Muller, P. Mendez, M. DeRoo, P. Klauser, S. Steen, and L. Poglia; title: NCAM in long-term potentiation and learning / Barbara P. Hartz, Lars Christian B. Rønn; title: Role of NCAM in emotion and learning / Lisa Conboy, Reto Bisaz, Kamila Markram, Carmen Sandi; title: Part VI. NCAM in disease.   NCAM in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders / Leann H. Brennaman, Patricia F. Maness; title: Neural cell adhesion molecule in cancer : expression and mechanisms / Silvia Zecchini, Ugo Cavallaro; title: Part VII. Pharmacology of NCAM : NCAM mimetics.  NCAM mimetic peptides : an update / Vladimir Berezin, Elisabeth Bock; title: Synthetic NCAM-derived ligands of the fibroblast growth factor receptor / Stine Maria Hansen, Shizhong Li, Elisabeth Bock, Vladimir Berezin; title: Dendritic spine and synapse morphological alterations induced by neural cell adhesion molecule mimetic / Michael Stewart, Victor Popov, Nikolai Medvedev, Paul Gabbott, Nicola Corbett, Igor Kraev, Heather Davies; title: Part VIII. Orthologs and paralogs of NCAM.  Fasciclin II : the NCAM ortholog in Drosophila melanogaster / Lars V. Kristiansen, Michael Hortsch; title: The neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM2/OCAM/RNCAM, a close relative to NCAM / Nikolaj Kulahin, Peter S. Walmod; title: Part IX. Conclusion.  Honoring Dr. Elisabeth Bock / Vladimir Berezin.