- Docente: Valeria Franceschini
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Molecular and cellular biology (cod. 8021)
Course contents
-Membrane structure. The lipid bilayer and its fluidity. Lipid
rafts. Membrane proteins and protein diffusion in the plane of the
membrane. Membrane transport. Proteins-carrier and channels.
Simple and carrier-mediated diffusions, active membrane transport.
- Intracellular compartments and protein sorting. Endoplasmic
reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosome, and secretory
vescicles. Caveolae. Transport pf molecules into and out the
nucleus. Nuclear pores. - The cytoskeleton. Microtubules. Motor
proteins. Rate and direction of movement along a microtubule. Cilia
and centrioles. Intermediate filaments. Microfilaments. The
structure of actin. Actin-binding proteins. Lamellipodia and
microspikes. Miosin. Muscle and nonmuscle cells motility. -
Cell-cell interaction. –
Readings/Bibliography
TD Pollard- WC Earnshaw: Cell Biology. II Edition. Elsevier Masson
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral assessment
Teaching tools
Video projector, PC
Links to further information
http://www.biologia.unibo.it/BES/default.htm
Office hours
See the website of Valeria Franceschini