Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, edited by R. Peters & M. Trendelenberg. Springer-Verlag, 1986. Pp. ix + 300. Dm 98
Based on the proceedings of a workshop on nucleocyto-plasmic transport held in Heidelberg in 1985, this collection of short papers aims to provide a brief but complete picture of the field and its prospects. To a large extent the editors have been successful in their task and have produced a book that would be very suitable for researchers familiar with the techniques of molecular cell biology to bring themselves reasonably up to date with recent developments in nucleo-cyto-plasmic transport.
As a prelude to recent work Brachet provides a charming historical perspective that summarizes early evidence for the structure of the nuclear envelope, its permeability to small solutes, RNA export from the nucleus and import of nuclear proteins from the cytoplasm. Unfortunately, seminal experiments performed in the 1970s, which established the concept of...
