Nuclear Structure and Gene Expression

Wilfred Stein is the author of three previous books on membrane transport, the first appearing almost fifty years ago. He has edited numerous books and written some 180 papers on various aspects of membrane transport and especially transport kinetics. These papers, especially those written together with his colleague William Lieb, defined many of the concepts used today in discussing movement across cell membranes. More recently he has turned to the study of the kinetics of drugs used in cancer therapy and in the treatment of malaria. He has taught biochemistry, biophysics and physiology at the University of Manchester and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Biophysics at the Hebrew University. He is married to a librarian and has four children and nine grandchildren.

Introduction. S. Penman, B.J. Blencowe, and J.A. Nickerson, The Nuclear Matrix: Past and Present. Nuclear Matrix Structure and Function: R. Berezney, The Nuclear Matrix: Mapping Genomic Organization and Function in the Cell Nucleus. K.A. Mattern, R. van Driel, and L. de Jong, Composition and Structure of the Internal Nuclear Matrix. T. Kohwi-Shigematsu and Y. Kohwi, High Unwinding Capability of Matrix Attachment Regions and ATC-Sequence Context-Specific MAR-Binding Proteins. R.C. Bird, The Cyclin/Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Complex: Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression and Nuclear Disassembly. Chromatin Structure and Transcritpion Complexes: G.S. Stein, A.J. van Wijnen, J. Stein, J.B. Lian, and M. Montecino, Nuclear Architecture in Developmental Transcriptional Control of Cell Growth and Tissue-Specific Genes. D.G. Wansink, L. de Jong, and R. van Driel, Transcription by RNA Polymerase II and Nuclear Architecture. Nuclear mRNP Complexes: S.A. Amero and K.C. Sorensen, Protein Disposition on Nascent Pre-mRNA Transcripts. Chapter References. Subject Index.