Nitric Oxide, Cell Signaling, and Gene Expression

by Santiago Lamas (Editor)

Overview

Since the nineteenth century, when engineers were using nitroglycerin to blow up rockbeds, and doctors were prescribing it to relieve angina, scientists have been exploring the incredible and often baffling behavior of nitric oxide. In the 1980s, researchers discovered that nitric oxide had the capacity to regulate vascular tone through cyclic GMP, firmly establishing its role as a physiological mediator. Over the last ten years, still further roles have been discovered that relate to nitric oxide’s unique ability to interact with and modify a wide variety of other molecules and regulators including glutathione, as well as macromolecules such as DNA and proteins.

Nitric Oxide, Cell Signaling, and Gene Expression is the first comprehensive work to showcase the highly useful diversity of cellular effects elicited by nitric oxide. A collection of expert contributors provides cutting-edge information on a variety of topics with tremendous implications in the fields of biology and medicine. These include…

Nitric oxide-driven cell signaling mediated by cGMP, GTPases, and S-nitrosylation

Nitric oxide’s role in hypoxia, gene expression, post-transcriptional control of gene expression, gene regulation in pulmonary pathophysiology, and tumor biology

The intriguing concept of mitochondrial nitric oxide synthase as a regulator of mitochondrial bioenergetics and free radical production

Modulation of cell metabolism

Nitric Oxide, Cell Signaling, and Gene Expression offers cell and molecular biologists, pharmacologists, biochemists, and biomedical researchers, as well as advanced graduate students, the insight and information they need to understand recent developments in this highly fertile area of research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824729608
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Series:	Oxidative Stress and Disease , #19
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Santiago Lamas

Table of Contents

Nitric Oxide Controls Cell Respiration by Reacting with Mitochondrial Complex IV. Mitochondrial Nitric Oxide Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity and Cell Death. Mitchondrial Nitric Oxide and Redox Signaling Modulation of Cell Behavior. Functions of Mitochondrial Nitric Oxide Synthase. Peroxynitrite: A Mediator of Nitric Oxide-Dependent Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Pathology. Modulation of Glucose Metabolism by Nitric Oxide in Astrocytes and Neurons. Nitric Oxide Cell Signaling Mediated by cGMP. Regulation of Cell Signaling by Protein Nitrosylation/Denitrosylation. Nitric Oxide and Caspase Activation. Signaling Effects of Peroxynitrite in Mammalian Cells. Nitric Oxide and Cell Signaling: Redox Regulation of Ras Superfamily GTPases. NO and the HIF-1 Transducing Systems. The Crosstalk between Nitric Oxide and Ceramide: Coordinate Interactions Among Signaling Pathways Regulating Cell Death, Survival, and Differentiation. Nitrosothiol Signaling and Gene Regulation in Pulmonary Pathophysiology. Nitric Oxide and Gene Expression. Nitric Oxide as a Modifier of Gene Expression. Nitric Oxide and Post-Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression. Nitric Oxide and Tumor Biology.

Editorial Reviews

… is very timely, bringing readers up to date with various facets of the work being carried out. … For an in-depth discussion of certain aspects of nitric oxide in mammalian systems, this is a very good book to read, with the excellent referencing that will allow for expanded further reading. …”
— John T Hancock, School of Biosciences, University of the West of England, U.K., in The Quartely Review of Biology, Vol. 81, December 2006

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