CELL DIVISION: THEORY, VARIANTS AND DEGRADATION -- CELL DIVISION: THEORY, VARIANTS AND DEGRADATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 DIRECT AND REVERSE GENETICS FOR CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION STUDIES IN GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC ERA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GENETICAL APPROACHES TO STUDY CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION -- GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC STUDIES OF CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION GENES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 MICROALGAE CELL AND POPULATION PERFORMANCE UNDER POLLUTION IMPACT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 1. Experimental Organisms -- 2. Toxicity Tests -- 3. Chromium Contamination Effect (Dose-Response Relationships) -- 4. The Photosynthetic Characteristics of Algal Cell -- 5. Fluctuation Test: Analysis of Transformation from Chromium Sensitivity to Chromium Resistance -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 1. Intrapopulational Changes of Algae under Toxic Exposure -- 1.1. Size-age distribution, coenobial composition and functional characteristics of S. quadricauda control culture. -- 1.2. Effect of toxicants at low concentrations -- 1.3. Effect of toxicants at moderate concentrations -- 1.4. Effect of toxicants at sublethal concentrations -- 1.5. Effect of toxicants at lethal concentrations -- 1.6. S. quadricauda cell cycle changes after the toxic treatment -- 2. Structural Changes and Adaptation of Algal Population under Different Regimens of Toxic Exposure. -- 2.1. Chromium contamination effect investigation. -- 2.2. The number of the toxicant-resistant cells within S. quadricauda population -- 2.3. Analysis of transformation from chromium sensitivity to chromium resistance. Mutation rate evaluation -- 3. Algostatic Effect of Silver -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 3 CELL DIVISION AND CELL ELONGATION OF CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM, A ROD-SHAPED BACTERIUM THAT LACKS ACTIN-LIKE HOMOLOGUES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MORPHOLOGICAL ECCENTRICITIES OF CORYNEBACTERIA: CLUB SHAPE, OUTER MEMBRANE, PLEOMORPHISM, AND SNAPPING DIVISION -- CELL ELONGATION AT THE CELL POLES -- PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS -- GENES INVOLVED IN CORYNEBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION AND ITS REGULATION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 THE IMPACT OF CELL CYCLE REGULATION ON THE TUMORIGENESIS PROCESS -- ABSTRACT -- CELL DIVISION: LIFE GUARDIAN OR DEATH PROMOTER -- THE CELL PROLIFERATION STIMULI -- THE ROLE OF CELL CYCLE CONTROL IN ONCOGENESIS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 ONE RING TO BIND THEM ALL AT THE CENTRE OF THE CELL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Cell Division Site Determination -- (a) Positive signals at the centre of the cell -- (b) Negative signals from the cell ends -- 2. Novel Regulators Defining the Site for CAR Formation -- (a) Cdr2, a novel regulator of cell division site specification -- (b) Kin1, a regulator of internal cellular organization, interacts with Pom1 -- 3. Assembly of the CAR at the Cell Equator -- (a) The cortical node model -- (b) The aster model -- (c) Role of the SIN singalling pathway in ring assembly -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS AND CANCER -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS -- CARCINOGENESIS -- THERAPUETIC DEVLOPMENTS -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 COHESIN AND COHESIN-REGULATOR COMPLEXES: FROM CELL DIVISION TO GENE EXPRESSION CONTROL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- COHESIN COMPLEX LOADING, COHESION ESTABLISHMENT AND COHESINOPATHIES -- COHESIN COMPLEX, INSULATOR CTCF FACTOR AND CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION -- COHESINS AND VIRAL TRANSCRIPTION CONTROL -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 8 THE ROLE OF DM NXF1 IN CONTROLLING EARLY EMBRYONIC MITOSES IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION: GENETICS, COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS* -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GENETICAL APPROACH TO STUDY CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION -- GENOMIC STUDIES OF CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION GENES -- FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS FOR STUDY OF CYANOBACTERIAL CELL DIVISION -- Comparative Proteomics of Cyanobacterial Cell Division Mutants FTN2 and FTN6 of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 -- Cell Cycle and Morphogenesis -- Protein Synthesis and Processing -- Cell Metabolism Changes in the Cell Division Mutants -- Unknown and Hypothetical Proteins -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.