Cellular proteolytic systems, volume 15.

Cellular proteolytic systems, volume 15. Edited by Aaron J. Ciechanover and Alan L. Schwartz. Modern Cell Biology Series. New York: John Wiley and Sons. (1994). 233 pp. $84.95

To classical biochemists, enzymologists, or cell biologists, proteolysis has been a problem that could wreak havoc with weeks of meticulous work when they find a particular activity is "dead" as a result of proteolytic degradation. Indeed, it may not be entirely coincidental that several proteases have the syllables "pain" in their names. In the past decade, proteases have assumed new respectab...

Proteolytic needles in the cellular haystack.

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Secure Communication in Shotgun Cellular Systems

In this paper, we analyze the secure connectivity in Shotgun cellular systems (SCS: Wireless communication systems with randomly placed base stations) by Poisson intrinsically secure communication graph (IS-graph), i.e., a random graph which describes the connections that are secure over a network. For a base-station in SCS, a degree of secure connections is determined over two channel models: ...

Author index to volume 15.

Cellular volume homeostasis.

All cells face constant challenges to their volume either through changes in intracellular solute content or extracellular osmolality. Cells respond to volume perturbations by activating membrane transport and/or metabolic processes that result in net solute loss or gain and return of cell volume to its normal resting state. This paper provides a brief overview of fundamental concepts of osmoti...