Open AccessTranscription factors - Methods and protocols
Author(s) -
CarloAlberto Redi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
european journal of histochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2038-8306
pISSN - 1121-760X
DOI - 10.4081/ejh.2011.br3
Subject(s) - compendium , presentation (obstetrics) , transcription (linguistics) , transcription factor , biology , medicine , genetics , philosophy , linguistics , surgery , gene
A hearty wellcome to prof. Higgins editorial toil: a necessary tool for those colleagues (young and older) fighting each day with the transcription factor they are involved with. In fact, the book is a full coverage compendium of state of the art papers dealing with practical thecniques and theoretical concepts about transcription factors. Each of the chapters (twenty-four) is written by colleagues already working with one of the many trascription factors we become acquainted with. For the sake of the reader the volume is divided in four parts: Part I is a brief (when compared to the others three !) introductory presentation of the shuttling (i.e., transcription factor nuclear-cytoplasmic trafficking) achieved by three reviews presentation of this biologically critical phenomenon. Part II (nine chapters) is devoted to the necessary techniques to study nuclear translocation