Further Readings
DeDuve, C. "The Birth of Complex Cells." Scientific American, April 1996, 50-57. All animals, plants, and fungi owe their existence to the remnants of tiny primitive bacteria.
Edelson, E. "Conduits for Cell/Cell Communication." Mosaic 21 (1990):48-56. A discussion of the proteinaceous channels between cells that facilitate intercellular communication and transport.
Ford, B. "The Earliest Views." Scientific American, April 1998, 50-53. Recreating the experiments of Robert Brown and Anton Van Leeuwenhoek using their own microscopes reveals what these pioneer microscopists actually saw with their simple single-lens instruments.
Glover, D., C. Gonzalez, and J. Raff. "The Centrosome." Scientific American, June 1993, 62-68. Recent information concerning the structure and function of centrioles.
Goodsell, D. The Machinery of Life. New York: Springer-Verlag: 1997. Explores how the cell performs its many duties.
Explores the foundation of cell structure.
Rothman, J., and L. Orci. "Budding Vesicles in Living Cells." Scientific American, March 1996, 70-75. Complex machinery forms the tiny containers that store proteins and shuttle them to and fro in cells.
Slayman, C. L. "Proton Chemistry and the Ubiquity of Proton Pumps." BioScience, January 1985, 16-47. This entire issue is devoted to a collection of seven articles on proton pumps; together they illustrate the central role these transmembrane channels play in the biology of both bacteria and eukaryotes.
Stossel, T. "The Machinery of Cell Crawling." Scientific American, September 1994, 54-63. The role of protein scaffolding is discussed in the mechanism of cell crawling.
Weber, K., and M. Osborn. "The Molecules of the Cell Matrix." Scientific American, October 1985, 110-20. Descriptions of the many different molecules that make up the cell cytoskeleton.
Whitesides, G. M. "The Once and Future Nanomachine." Scientific American, September 2001, 78-83.
Examines the feasibility of molecular machines.
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