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Cell-Cell Channels


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Frantisek Baluska
University of Bonn, Institute of Cell and Molecular Botany; Bonn, Germany

Dieter Volkmann
University of Bonn, Institute of Cell and Molecular Botany; Bonn, Germany

Peter W. Barlow
University of Bristol; Bristol, U.K.

This book is co-published with Springer.

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ISBN: 978-0-387-36058-4
Pub date: 2006-09-01
321 pages
119 figures
2 tables

About this book

This book covers cell-cell channels at all levels of biological organization. The purpose
of this book is to document that cells are not physically separated and fully autonomous units
of biological life as stated by the currently valid Cell Theory. If not the cell then some lower
level unit must fulfill this role. The book deals also with the identity of this elusive unit
of biological life.

Table of contents

1. Cell-Cell Channels and Their Implications for Cell Theory
Frantisek Baluska, Dieter Volkmann and Peter W. Barlow

SECTION I: PROKARYOTIC CELLS

2. Mating Cell-Cell Channels in Conjugating Bacteria
Elisabeth Grohmann

SECTION II: CILIATE CELLS

3. The Tetrahymena Conjugation Junction
Eric S. Cole

SECTION III: ALGAL CELLS

4. Cytoplasmic Bridges in Volvox and Its Relatives
Harold J. Hoops, Ichiro Nishii and David L. Kirk

SECTION IV: FUNGAL CELLS

5. Vegetative Hyphal Fusion in Filamentous Fungi
Nick D. Read and M. Gabriela Roca

SECTION V: PLANT CELLS

6. Plasmodesmata: Cell-Cell Channels in Plants
Yoselin Benitez Alfonso, Laurence Cantrill and David Jackson

7. Sieve-Pore Plugging Mechanisms
Aart J.E. van Bel

8. Actin and Myosin VIII in Plant Cell-Cell Channels
Jozef Samaj, Nigel Chaffey, Uday Tirlapur, Jan Jasik, Andrej Hlavacka,
Zhan Feng Cui, Dieter Volkmann, Diedrik Menzel and Frantisek Baluska

9. Cell-Cell Communication in Wood
John R. Barnett

10. TMV Movement Protein Targets Cell-Cell Channels in Plants and Prokaryotes:
Possible Roles of Tubulin- and FtsZ-Based Cytoskeletons
Manfred Heinlein

11. Viral Movement Proteins Induce Tubule Formation in Plant and Insect Cells
Jan W.M. van Lent and Corinne Schmitt-Keichinger

12. Cell-Cell Movements of Transcription Factors in Plants
Alexis Maizel

SECTION VI: ANIMAL CELLS

13. Gap Junctions: Cell-Cell Channels in Animals
Fabio Mammano

14. Tunneling Nanotubes: Membranous Channels between Animal Cells
Hans-Hermann Gerdes and Amin Rustom

15. Cytoplasmic Bridges as Cell-Cell Channels of Germ Cells
Sami Ventelä

16. Fusome as a Cell-Cell Communication Channel of Drosophila Ovarian Cyst
Jean-René Huynh

17. Cytonemes as Cell-Cell Channels in Human Blood Cells
Svetlana Ivanovna Galkina, Anatoly Georgievich Bogdanov, Georgy Natanovich Davidovich
and Galina Fedorovna Sud’ina

18. Paracellular Pores in Endothelial Barriers
Luca Manzi and Gianfranco Bazzoni

19. Channels across Endothelial Cells
Radu V. Stan

20. Molecular Transfers through Transient Lymphoid Cell-Cell Channels
Mary Poupot, Julie Gertner and Jean-Jacques Fournié

21. Cell-Cell Transport of Homeoproteins: With or Without Channels?
Alain Joliot and Alain Prochiantz

22. Virological Synapse for Cell-Cell Spread of Viruses
Eduardo Garcia and Vincent Piguet

23. Cell-Cell Fusion: Transient Channels Leading to Plasma Membrane Merger
William A. Mohler