─Content─
ch 1 The “Brain of the cell”: Data Processing by Protein Networks
ch 2 Supplying the Network with Energy: Basic Biochemistry of
Signal Transduction

ch 3 Evolution of Cellular Data Processing

ch 4 Basic Equipment: G-Proteins, Second Messengers, and Protein
Kinases

ch 5 Signal Transduction by Receptors with Seven Transmembrane
Domains

ch 6 Signal Transduction by Serine/Threonine Kinase-Coupled
Receptors

ch 7 Signal Transduction by Tyrosine Kinase- and Protein
Phosphatase-Coupled Receptors: A Late Invention of
Evolution

ch 8 Gene Transcription: The Ultimate Target of Signal
Transduction

ch 9 Signals Controlling mRNA Translation

ch10 Signal Transduction by Small G-Proteins: The Art of
Molecular Targeting

ch11 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase and Nuclear Factor κB
Modules

ch12 Cancer and Regulation of Cell Division

ch13 Signal Transduction by Proteolysis and Programmed Cell Death

ch14 Signal Transduction by Ions

ch15 Sensory Signal Processing

ch16 Signaling at Synapses: Neurotransmitters and their Receptors

ch17 Putting Together the Pieces: The Approach of Systems Biology

Index