The Cell Cycle: Principles of Control

About this book

The Cell Cycle is an account of the mechanisms that control cell division beginning with a description of the phases and main events of the cell cycle and the main model organisms in cell-cycle analysis including Xenopus Drosophila and yeasts. Later chapters focus on the molecules and mechanisms of the cell-cycle control system including the cyclin-dependent kinase family of protein kinases the cyclins that activate them and the signaling molecules that regulate them and discuss cell-cycle control in development and the failure of controls in cancer.