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Cell Fusions

Regulation and Control

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Editors:
  1. Lars-Inge Larsson

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Division of Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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  • A rapidly evolving field
  • Mechanisms discussed are important to major human diseases (cancer, retroviral infections like HIV)
  • Mechanisms discussed are important to stem cell repair and fetal development

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Regulation and Control of Cell–Cell Fusions

    • Lars-Inge Larsson
    Pages 1-9

  3. Retroviruses and Cell Fusions: Overview

    • Anders L. Kjeldbjerg, Shervin Bahrami, Finn Skou Pedersen
    Pages 11-39

  4. Retroviral Membrane Fusions: Regulation by Proteolytic Processing and Cellular Factors

    • Yoshinao Kubo
    Pages 41-61

  5. A Comparative Portrait of Retroviral Fusogens and Syncytins

    • Philippe Pérot, Cécile Montgiraud, Dimitri Lavillette, François Mallet
    Pages 63-115

  6. Syncytins: Molecular Aspects

    • Hungwen Chen, Mei-Leng Cheong
    Pages 117-137

  7. Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton Within FuRMAS During Drosophila Myoblast Fusion and First Functionally Conserved Factors in Vertebrates

    • Susanne-Filiz Önel, Christine Dottermusch, Angela Sickmann, Detlev Buttgereit, Renate Renkawitz-Pohl
    Pages 139-170

  8. Role of CD9 in Sperm-Egg Fusion and Its General Role in Fusion Phenomena

    • Natsuko Kawano, Yuichiro Harada, Keiichi Yoshida, Mami Miyado, Kenji Miyado
    Pages 171-184

  9. Gamete Binding and Fusion

    • Young-Joo Yi, Shawn W. Zimmerman, Peter Sutovsky
    Pages 185-201

  10. Mechanisms Regulating Human Trophoblast Fusion

    • Berthold Huppertz, Martin Gauster
    Pages 203-217

  11. Macrophage Fusion: The Making of a New Cell

    • Agnès Vignery
    Pages 219-231

  12. Molecules Regulating Macrophage Fusions

    • Takeshi Miyamoto, Toshio Suda
    Pages 233-248

  13. Current Progress Towards Understanding Mechanisms of Myoblast Fusion in Mammals

    • Grace K. Pavlath
    Pages 249-265

  14. The Endogenous Envelope Protein Syncytin Is Involved in Myoblast Fusion

    • Bolette Bjerregaard, Jan Fredrik Talts, Lars-Inge Larsson
    Pages 267-275

  15. Cell Fusion and Stem Cells

    • Alain Silk, Anne E. Powell, Paige S. Davies, Melissa H. Wong
    Pages 277-314

  16. Cell Fusion and Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccines

    • Jianlin Gong, Shigeo Koido
    Pages 315-350

  17. Cancer Cell Fusion with Myeloid Cells: Implications for Energy Metabolism in Malignant Hybrids

    • Rossitza Lazova, Ashok K. Chakraborty, John M. Pawelek
    Pages 351-394

  18. Cell–Cell Fusions and Human Endogenous Retroviruses in Cancer

    • Reiner Strick, Matthias W. Beckmann, Pamela L. Strissel
    Pages 395-426

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 427-436
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About this book

Cell fusions are important to fertilization, placentation, development of skeletal muscle and bone, calcium homeostasis and the immune defence system. Additionally, cell fusions participate in tissue repair and may be important to cancer development, progression and therapy. A large number of factors regulate cell fusions, including receptors and ligands, membrane domain organizing proteins, proteases, signaling molecules and fusogenic proteins that bring membranes close together. In the present volume, we interrogate what mechanisms that may be important to cell fusions in mammals and what mechanisms that may be shared with lower organisms and viruses. Additionally, the importance of cell fusions to the pathogenesis as well as treatment of diseases is addressed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, Division of Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

    Lars-Inge Larsson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cell Fusions

  • Book Subtitle: Regulation and Control

  • Editors: Lars-Inge Larsson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9772-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9771-2Published: 25 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8987-6Published: 06 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9772-9Published: 22 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 436

  • Topics: Biomedicine general

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