SECTION I: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF APOPTOSIS. Ch 1. Death receptors in apoptosis, R. Ravi and A. Bedi both at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. Ch 2. The role of caspases in apoptosis, S. Kumar and D. Cakouros, both at Hanson Centre for Cancer Research, Adelaide, Australia. Ch 3. Making sense of the Bcl-2 family of apoptosis regulators, L. Haughn and D. Hockenbery both at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA. Ch 4. Functional domains in apoptosis proteins, K. Hofmann, Memorec Stoffel GmbH, Cologne, Germany. SECTION II: CELL BIOLOGY OF APOPTOSIS. Ch 5. The role of the endoplasmic reticulum in apoptosis, D.G. Breckenridge and G. C. Shore both at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Ch 6. Mitochondria in apoptosis induction, B. Antonsson Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. SECTION III: CELL DEATH IN MODEL SYSTEMS. Ch 7. Regulators and applications of yeast apoptosis, K-U. Frohlich IMBM, Graz, Austria and Frank Madeo, Universitat Tubingen, Germany. Ch 8. Evolution of cell death: caspase mediated mechanisms in early metazoans. non-caspase mechanisms in single- celled eukaryotes, A. Bottger and C. David, University of Munich, Germany. Ch 9. Programme cell death in C. Elegans, A. Gartner, A. Alpi and B. Schumacher all at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. Ch 10. Apoptosis in Drosophilia, K. White Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA. Ch 11. Cell culture systems in apoptosis, S. Grimm Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. Ch 12. Caspase-independent cell death, M. Leist and Marja Jaattela H. Lundbeck A/S, Copenhagen-Valby, Copenhagen, Denmark and Denmark Institute for Cancer Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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