Biology of Inositols and Phosphoinositides Subcellular Biochemistry

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SUBCELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY SERIES EDITOR J. ROBIN HARRIS, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

ASSISTANT EDITORS B.B. BISWAS, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India P. QUINN, King's College London, London, U.K Recent Volumes in this Series Volume 31

Intermediate Filaments Edited by Harald Herrmann and J. Robin Harris

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alpha-Gal and Anti-Gal: alpha-1,3-Galactosyltransferase, alpha-Gal Epitopes and the Natural Anti-Gal Antibody Edited by Uri Galili and Jos-Luis Avila

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Bacterial Invasion into Eukaryotic Cells Tobias A. Oelschlaeger and Jorg Hacker

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Fusion of Biological Membranes and Related Problems Edited by Herwig Hilderson and Stefan Fuller

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Enzyme-Catalyzed Electron and Radical Transfer Andreas Holzenburg and Nigel S. Scrutton

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Phospholipid Metabolism in Apoptosis Edited by Peter J. Quinn and Valerian E. Kagan

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Membrane Dynamics and Domains Edited by P.J. Quinn

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Alzheimer’s Disease: Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Amyloid beta Edited by R. Harris and F. Fahrenholz

Biology of Inositols and Phosphoinositides Subcellular Biochemistry Volume 39 Edited by

A. Lahiri Majumder Bose Institute Kolkata India

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B. B. Biswas University College of Science Kolkata, India and University of Calcutta Kolkata India

This series is a continuation of the journal Sub-Cellular Biochemistry. Volume 1 to 4 of which were published quarterly from 1972 to 1975 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-387-27599-1 (HB) 978-0-387-27599-4 (HB) 0-387-27600-1 (e-book) 978-0-387-27600-7 (e-book)

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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD R. BITTMAN, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, USA D. DASGUPTA, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India H. ENGELHARDT, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany L. FLOHE, MOLISA GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany H. HERRMANN, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany A. HOLZENBURG, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA H-P. NASHEUER, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland S. ROTTEM, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel M. WYSS, DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Basel, Switzerland P. ZWICKL, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany

Preface

From being to becoming important, myo-inositol and its derivatives including phosphoinositides and phosphoinositols involv