Calcium: Cell Cycle Driver, Differentiator, Killer

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A brief guide through the entire cycle of the eukaryotic cell, pointing out the roles of calcium along the way. Finds different cycle-driving protein kinases and phosphatases, certificates of chromosomal integrity needed to pass through several closely guided cycle checkpoints, sites where calcium ions drive the assembly and start-up of the megamachines that replicate the chromosomes, and the final stages of mitosis and cell division. Also describes the role of calcium in self-inflicted death by apoptosis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.