Membranes and Circadian Rythms

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • T. Vanden Driessche

   Pages 1-12

3. Membrane Lipids and Circadian Rhythms in Neurospora crassa

   • Gary G. Coté, Patricia L. Lakin-Thomas, Stuart Brody

   Pages 13-46

4. Membrane Glycosylation and Circadian Rhythms in Plant Systems and in Animal Normal and Transformed Systems

   • Ghislaine M. Petiau-de Vries

   Pages 47-66

5. From Ultradian Biochemical Oscillations to Circadian Rhythms

   • Albert Goldbeter

   Pages 67-93

6. Cross-talk Between Clocks: Regulation of Cell Division Cycles by Circadian Oscillators

   • Leland N. Edmunds Jr.

   Pages 95-124

7. Membrane Transport and Oscillations in Plants

   • Fabrice Homblé

   Pages 125-138

8. Circadian Rhythms and Photoperception in Plants: The Role of Red Light and Blue Light

   • Han Asard, Roland J. Caubergs

   Pages 139-158

9. Temporal Variations in Tissular and Plasma Protein Binding of Drugs With Special Reference to their Erythrocyte Penetration as Mechanisms Involved in Chronopharmacological Effects

   • Bernard Bruguerolle

   Pages 159-169

10. Photosynthesis: a Post-Transcriptionally Regulated Circadian Rhythm in Some Lower Eukaryotes

    • T. Vanden Driessche

    Pages 171-185

11. Circadian Rhythms, Membranes and Susceptibility to Environmental Factors

    • E. Wagner, S. Kiefer, C. Penel, J. Normann, S. Ruiz-Fernandez, M. Bonzon et al.

    Pages 187-200

12. The Plasma Membrane of Acetabularia: an Integrating Function Regulated by Circadian Rhythmicity

    • T. Vanden Driessche, J.-L. Guisset, G. M. Petiau-de Vries, T. Gaspar

    Pages 201-219

13. Back Matter

    Pages 221-227

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Rambling of an elderly biochemist Most biochemists of my generation, who were trying to discover the pathways of metabolism, simply ignored membranes; or regarded them as a nuisance. Think of the difficulties experienced in studies on cytochromoxidase which one could not separate from « insoluble material )} or again of the desperate efforts during a quarter of a century to unravel oxidative phosphorylation without paying much attention to lipidic membranes, altough the system was known to be associated with them. Hence the amazement and the general skepticism that met at first Mitchell's theory, which was giving membranes the central function they deserve in oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthesis. This, I believe, was a turning point; enzymologists thereafter became aware of the importance of the membranes. Neurophysiologists, of course, had long been interested in the outer cell membrane with its electrical properties and the ion potentials. Histologists and electronmicroscopists also, who observed inside the cell.organelles of which membranes are essential components: nucleus, nucleoli, mitchondria, lysosomes,Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, chloroplasts. For them at least, a cell did not look like a mere bag full of enzymes and small molecules; they knew, they could see that it is a highly structured system divided into many compartments by membranous formations.

• Endoplasmatisches Reticulum
• Phytohormon
• cell
• cell cycle
• cell division
• cell membrane
• chloroplast
• glycoprotein
• membrane
• metabolism
• proteins
• regulation
• signal transduction
• transcription
• tumors

• Département de Biologie Moleculaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

  Therese Driessche

• Pool de Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

  Jean-Luc Guisset

• Chimie Generale I, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

  Ghislaine M. Petiau-de Vries

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