Vann Bennett: How ankyrin holds it all together

Vann Bennett: How ankyrin holds it all together

P ick any animal cell, and chances are you'll fi nd a protein called ankyrin somewhere under the plasma membrane. Vann Bennett fi rst discovered ankyrin (1, 2) as the anchor that connects the anion exchanger to the spectrin-based membrane skeleton in erythrocytes. Ankyrin is a member of a family of adaptors that perform similar roles for multiple membrane transporters as well as cell adhesion m...

Putting it all together.

With an extensive career in cancer care, Catherine Gillespie is able to pull nursing and policy together.

Putting it all together.

• Let's look at some relatively simple privileged programs • How do they combine the different mechanisms we've seen? • What are the threats? The defenses?

Pulling It All Together

Hundreds of pathways, thousands of cell types, tens of thousands of molecules, megabytes of data, and seemingly infinite biological networks—the study of life has perhaps never been more daunting. What ever happened to the explanation from Miller-Urey’s experiment on life’s origins, involving just four compounds, or the simple (okay, merely seemingly simple) unidirectional flow from DNA/RNA/pro...

Tying It All Together