Progress in Cell Cycle Research

This volume starts with a review of RAS pathways and how they impinge on the cell cycle. It then presents an overview of the links between cell anchorage - cytoskeleton and cell cycle progression - and a model of the G1 control in mammalian cells is also provided.

Preface. Relationship between RAS pathways and cell cycle control; M.E. Ewen. Cell-Anchorage, cell cytoskeleton, and Rho-GTPase family in regulation of cell cycle progression; I. Tatsuno, et al. The Continuum model and G1-control of the mammalian cell cycle; S. Cooper. Histone acetylation and the control of the cell cycle; L. Magnaghi-Jaulin, et al. 14-3-3. proteins and growth control; V. Baldin. A Cdc7p-Dbf4 protein kinase activity is conserved from yeast to humans; L.H. Johnston, et al. Alternative product of the p16/CKDN2A locus connects the Rb and p53 tumor suppressors; M.C. James, G. Peters. Phosphorylation-dependent prolyl isomerization: a novel cell cycle regulatory mechanism; K.P. Lu. Functions of Pho85 cyclin-dependent kinases in budding yeast; J. Moffat, et al. Cell cycle regulation by the Cdc 25 phosphatase family; I. Nilsson, I. Hoffmann. Molecular mechanisms of the initiation of oocyte maturation: general and species-specific aspects; M. Yamashita, et al. The activation of MAP kinase and p34 cdc2/cyclin B during the meiotic maturation of Xenopus oocytes; A. Palmer, A.R. Nebreda. Premature chromatin condensation caused by loss of RCC1; H. Nishijima, et al. HTLV-I tax and cell cycle progression; C. Neuveut, K.-T. Jeang. The cell cycle in protozoan parasites; C. Doerig, et al. Circadian control of cell division in unicellular organisms; M. Tetsuya, C.H. Johnson. Circadian variation of cell proliferation and cell cycle protein expression in man: clinical implicatikons; G. Bjarnason, R. Jordan. Molecular switches that govern the balance between proliferation and apoptosis; B. Schutte, F.C.S. Ramaekers. Molecular events that regulate cell proliferation: an approach for the development of new anticancer drugs; E. Damiens. Abortive oncogeny and cell cycle-mediated events in Alzheimer disease; A.K. Raina, et al. Contributors. Index.