Protein kinase C in cancer signaling and therapy

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online servie)
Group Author: Kazanietz Marcelo G.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Current cancer research
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-543-9
Carrier Form: xiv, 494 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781607615439 (electr. bk.)
1607615436
9781607615422
1607615428
Index Number: R730
CLC: R730.53
Q556
Contents: Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Protein kinase C in cancer signaling and therapy: introduction and historical perspective -- Regulation of conventional and novel protein kinase C isozymes by phosphorylation and lipids -- Phorbol esters and diacylglycerol: the PKC activators -- Diacylglycerol signaling: the C1 domain, generation of DAG and termination of signals -- Regulation of PKC by protein-protein interaction in cancer -- Introduction: PKC isozymes in the control of cell function -- Regulation and function of protein kinase C signaling -- PKC and control of the cell cycle -- PKC and the control of apoptosis -- Atypical PKC's, NF-kB and inflammation -- Introduction: PKC and cancer -- Protein kinase C, p53, and DNA damage -- PKCs as mediators of the hedgehog and Wnt signaling pathways -- PKC-PKD interplay in cancer -- Transgenic mouse models to investigate functional specificity of protein kinase C isoforms in the developoment of squamous cell carcinoma, a nonmelanoma human skin cancer -- PKC isozymes and skin cancer -- PKC and breast cancer -- PKC and prostate cancer -- Protein kinase C and lung cancer -- Introduction [PKC isozymes as targets for cancer therapy] -- PKC and resistance to chemotherapeutic agents -- PKCd as a target for chemotherapeutic drugs -- Atypical PKCs as targets for cancer therapy.