This volume contains the proceedings of the FEBS Sym posium on the Biochemistry of Membrane Transport, which was held at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zlirich, July 18-23, 1976. Of the speakers invited or iginally, only five could not attend the meeting, and of the lectures given, all but one of the texts are published here. Thus, this volume gives a faithful ac count of the way the meeting was originally conceived and actually took place. This Symposium on Biochemistry of Membrane Transport was the first Symposium sponsored by the FEBS outside the yearly FEBS-Meetings, after the Special Meeting on Industrial Biochemistry, which took place in Dublin in 1973, and it reflects the interest and the trend for gatherings of smaller size than the official FEBS Meetings. The topic of the Symposium was an easy choice, not only because membrane transport is becom ing more and more important to biochemistry every year, but also because of the long-standing interest of Swiss Science in the field. In the choice of the topics and of the speakers, efforts were made to achieve as balanced a coverage of the area as possible. However, since some aspects of membrane biochemistry were dealt with extensively at the parallel 10th Inter national Congress of Biochemistry in Hamburg, GFR, cer tain topics were given less emphasis than others. The Symposium was attended by about 400 participants (we expected 200-250); among them 48 were invited speakers, and some 200 contributed posters.
Author(s): K. Mühlethaler (auth.), Professor Dr. Giorgio Semenza, Professor Dr. Ernesto Carafoli (eds.)
Series: Proceedings in Life Sciences
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1977
Language: English
Pages: 669
Tags: Biochemistry, general; Cell Biology
Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Electron Microscopic Studies on Membranes....Pages 2-9
Motional Freedom of Integral Proteins in the Mitochondrial Energy-Transducing Membrane....Pages 10-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Some Aspects of Lipid-Phase Transition on Membrane Permeability and Lipid-Protein Association....Pages 38-46
A Calorimetric and Fluorescent Probe Study of Phase Transitions in Phosphatidylcholine Liposomes....Pages 47-71
Phase Transitions, Protein Aggregation and a New Method for Modulating Membrane Fluidity....Pages 72-85
Rotational Diffusion of Proteins in Membranes....Pages 86-95
Protein-Protein Interactions in the Purple Membrane....Pages 96-104
Incorporation of Pure Hydrolases Isolated from Brush Border Membranes in Single-Bilayer Lecithin Vesicles....Pages 105-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Chiral Recognition of Biogenic Amines by Synthetic Neutral Ionophores in Membranes....Pages 116-122
Recent Developments in the Structure-Functional Studies of Peptide Ionophores....Pages 123-146
Elementary Steps and Dynamic Aspects of Carrier-Mediated Cation Transport Through Membranes: the Streptogramin Antibiotics (Group B)....Pages 147-178
Studies on the Gramicidin Channel....Pages 179-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
The Asymmetry of Sugar Transport in the Red Cell Membrane....Pages 204-211
Nonlinearity of Reciprocal Plots in Transport Kinetics....Pages 212-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Hydrogen-Ion Dissociation as a Factor in Amino Acid Transport....Pages 222-235
Electrogenic Ion Pump as an Energy Source for Active Amino Acid Transport in Ehrlich Cells....Pages 236-249
Some Common Aspects of Active Solute Transport in Yeast and Mouse Ascites Tumour Cells....Pages 250-260
Reconstitution of Na + Gradient-Coupled Carrier Functions of Brush Border Membranes of Intestine and Kidney in Sonicated Liposomes....Pages 261-268
A Possible Common Activation Site in Na + -Driven Transport Systems. Partial Purification of the Na-Dependent D-Glucose Transport System From Small Intestinal Brush Borders....Pages 269-279
Amino Acid Transport and Binding Activity from Membrane Preparations of Animal Cells....Pages 280-291
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Sidedness and Coupling of Transport Processes in Small Intestinal and Renal Epithelia....Pages 292-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
The Action of 2-(4′-Amino Phenyl)-6-Methyl Benzene Thiazol-3,7′-Disulfonic Acid (APMB) on Anion Transport and the Protein in Band 3 of the Red Blood Cell Membrane....Pages 306-315
NAP-Taurine, a Photoaffinity Probe for the Anion Transport System of the Red Blood Cell....Pages 316-327
Structural and Functional Properties of the Anion Transport System Isolated from Human Erythrocyte Membranes....Pages 328-345
Reconstitution and Purification of the D-Glucose Transport Protein from Human Erythrocytes....Pages 346-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Titration of Sodium Against Potassium by Their Action on (Na + , K + ) Transport ATPase....Pages 352-362
Concept on the Link between Chemical and Electro-Chemical Free Energies in (NaK)-ATPase Transport Function....Pages 363-373
Purification and Properties of Na, K-ATPases from the Rectal Gland of Squalus acanthias and the Electric Organ of Electrophorus electricus and Reconstitution of the Na + - K + Pump from the Purified Enzyme....Pages 374-388
Some Aspects of the Ca-Pump in Human Red Blood Cells....Pages 389-400
Protein-Protein Interactions and the Functional States of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membranes....Pages 401-415
Energy Interconversion in Sarcoplasmic Membranes....Pages 416-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Calcium and the Control of Neurosecretion....Pages 430-441
The Molecular Organisation of the Sodium Channels in Nerve....Pages 442-448
Voltage Clamp Analysis of Catecholamine-Induced Calcium Conductance Changes in Mammalian Cardiac Muscle....Pages 449-457
Front Matter....Pages 459-459
Effect of Cyclic-Adenosine-Monophosphate on Chloride Transport Across some Mammalian Epithelia....Pages 460-469
Steroid Hormone-Induced Alterations in Membrane Lipids — the Basis for Altered Ion Transport....Pages 470-480
Calcium, Glucose Transport and Insulin Action....Pages 481-499
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
The Proton Pump of the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain....Pages 502-519
The Stoichiometric Coupling of H + Efflux During Electron Transport to H + Influx During ATP Synthesis by Mitochondria....Pages 520-534
Mitochondrial Calcium Transport and the Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis....Pages 535-551
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
In vivo Measurements of Ionized Mg 2+ and Ca 2+ in Single Cells....Pages 552-566
The ADP, ATP Translocation and its Catalyst....Pages 567-581
Front Matter....Pages 581-581
The Transport of Sugars Across Bacterial Membranes (Aharon-Katzir-Katchalsky Memorial Lecture)....Pages 582-597
Molecular Biology and Energetics of Membrane Transport....Pages 598-625
Solubilisation and Partial Purification of Alanine Carrier from Membranes of a Thermophilic Bacterium and its Reconstitution into Functional Vesicles....Pages 626-632
Some Ion Transport Systems in E. coli. (Transport of Potassium and of Anionic Sugars)....Pages 633-647
The Role of Periplasmic Proteins and Outer Membrane Receptors in the Process of Active Transport in E. coli ....Pages 648-663
Back Matter....Pages 665-672
