Abstract

Over the past few years there have been considerable advances in our understanding of cellular control mechanisms, and current research is now linking areas of biology that were previously thought of as being quite separate. Molecular Aspects of Cellular Regulation is a series of occasional books on multidisciplinary topics which illustrate general principles of cellular regulation. Previous volumes described Recently Discovered Systems of Enzyme Regulation by Reversible Phosphorylation (Volumes 1 and 3), The Molecular Actions of Toxins and Viruses (Volume 2), Molecular Mechanisms of Transmembrane Signalling (Volume 4) and Calmodulin (Volume 5). This sixth volume, The Hormonal Control of Gene Transcription, has now been published to highlight recent important advances in our understanding of this topic which is linking two of the most active areas of current biochemical and molecular biological research (hormone action and gene transcription) and leading to the emergence of unifying concepts.
..I was impressed by this book: it successfully combines signal transduction with transcription and it explains fundamental principles, which will not become rapidly outdated."
TRENDS IN GENETICS
I warmly recommend it to readers, from graduate students to senior investigators, interested in the broader issues of the molecular biology of cellular regulation.
TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
The whole book has a very well equilibrated composition with regard to the ratio of the review chapters and the description of the experimemntal result of the authors.
BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM