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Mechanisms in Transcriptional Regulation provides a concise discussion of the fundamental concepts in transcription and its regulation

• Covers RNA polymerases, transcriptional machinery, mechanisms of transcriptional activation, the histone code hypothesis, the epigenetic control of transcription, and combinatorial control in signaling and development
  
• Features over 80 figures available to download online
  
• Chapters include comprehensive reading lists, boxes highlighting theoretical concepts and experimental methods and problems designed to build and test understanding

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Gene Regulation provides a complete and concise picture of the processes regulating gene expression in higher organisms and man. The second edition of this well reviewed textbook has been extensively updated to reflect the scientific progress made in this area over the last four years..
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Transcription, or the process by which DNA produces RNA, is a central aspect of gene expression Transcription factors regulate transcription during development and in disease states. As such, it is critical for researchers to gain a good understanding of the relationship between the structure of various families of transcription factors and their function, as well as roles in human disease. Since publication of the Fourth Edition, there have been major advances, notably in the areas of chromatin remodeling and genome-scale analyses. This complete update includes all new coverage of the latest developments, from enabling genomic technologies to studies on the importance of post-translational modifications beyond phosphorylation events.

Brand new coverage in this edition includes:
* Potential of transcription factors as therapeutic targets in human disease
* Importance of histone modifications
* Use of genome-based sequence analysis and high-throughput methods
* Applications of the chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay
* Transcriptional elongation
* Regulation by post-translational modifications
* Regulatory networks and bioinformatics.
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This volume is a comprehensive practical manual, with each of its eleven chapters describing a key aspect of the methods currently used to investigate DNA replication in eukaryotes The sequence of the chapters corresponds roughly to the order of events during DNA replication. The first chapters are concerned with initiation, looking at methods to characterize origins of replication and the proteins that interact with them. There then follow chapters describing protocols for the study of the elongation phase and the synthesis of the telomeres. The final chapters provide a more general overview of the study of DNA replication--including its investigation in model systems such as yeast, xenopus and viruses--and looks into methods used to study DNA-protein interactions that could be applied to the study of replication proteins. This exciting new volume provides over 120 tried and tested protocols for the analysis of eukaryotic DNA replication and will be of major interest to a wide variety of molecular and cell biologists, biochemists and medical researchers..
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The recent revolution in molecular biology has spread through every field of biology including systematics and evolution Researchers can now analyze the genomes of different species relatively quickly, and this is generating a great deal of data and theories about relationships between taxa as well as how they originated and diversified.

Organelles, Genomes and Eukaryote Phylogeny covers recent developments in the field of “deep level” phylogenetic inference of eukaryotes, especially with respect to the origin and evolution of eukaryotic cells and their organelles. It focuses on interpretation of data derived from molecular and cell biology, genome sequencing with respect to the timing and mechanism of eukaryogenesis, and the endosymbiotic events leading to mitochondria and plastids.

As ideas that prevailed for twenty years are being revised, updated, or abandoned in the face of more sophisticated analysis of molecular sequence data, this book will prove relevant to all studentsand professionals working in molecular systematics, comparative genomics, and cell biology..
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This collection of cutting-edge techniques for the study of the eukaryotic cell cycle and its key regulatory molecules includes overviews of cell cycle regulatory mechanisms in many major research organisms. Described in step-by-step detail, these readily reproducible methods enable fundamental research on well-defined cell cycle regulators-and those more recently defined-in yeasts, bacteria, plants, Drosophila, Xenopus, and mammals. The book offers all cell researchers indispensable techniques essential to understanding how normal cells divide and how this is altered in disease..
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