Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

The important second part of the book, which is more cellular, concerns the cytoplasmic cytoskeleton and its potential relationship to the membrane. These subjects include the molecular architecture of the microvillus cytoskeleton, that of the placental microvilli, that of the brush border and its relationship to contractility, the involvement of membrane glycoproteins to attachment of microfilaments of microvilli, and finally the structural and functional relationship between the cytoskeleton and the membrane of the intestinal border. The final aspect of the book begins curiously with a chapter on Na+K+ATPase (a much-worked-on and reviewed basolateral enzyme) and then gets down to business on the immunoglobulin G Fc receptors of neonatal rat intestinal brush borders, the immunoglobulin G receptors, and co-transport systems in the membrane of the placenta. The book lacks material on the mode of assembly and processing of the brush border proteins, including their related DNA sequences, as well as the processes of endocytosis and membrane recycling which are among the areas of popular current research.