Volume 5 in the series Advances in Structural Biology is based upon a selection of articles presented at the Workshop on Molecular Bio-physics of the Cytoskeleton: Microtubule Formation, Structure, Function, and Interactions (August 18-22 1997 at the Banff Conference Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada). Its main objective was to review the state-of-the-art of the field and stimulate a multidisciplinary investigation into the molecular biology of the cytoskeleton, which is amply manifested in the articles selected and published in this volume.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Regulation of bidirectional pigment granule movement in melanophores / Helen Nilsson and Magareta Willan -- Ciliated cell electrodynamics: from cilia and flagella to ciliated sensory systems / Ezio M. Insinna -- Microtubule self-organization as an example of a biological turing structure / James Tabony and Cyril Papaseit -- Molecular automata modeling in structural biology / R. Lahoz-Beltra -- On the interaction of magnetic fields with coherent (bio)chemical reactions / K. Zioutas, L. Walckiers, M. Pagitsas, D. Sazou and D. Malchow -- Reflections of biological signaling: electronic conduction may be an important intracellular pathway / J.A. Brown and J.A. Tuszyński -- Ferroelectrics and their possible involvement in biology / N.E. Mavromatos, D.V. Nanopoulos, I. Samaras and K. Zioutas -- Viscoelasticity of biopolymer networks and statistical mechanics of semiflexible polymers / Erwin Frey, Klaus Kroy, and Jan Wilhelm -- Stochastic data analysis for the assembly and disassembly of microtubules in vitro / J.A. Tuszyński, D. Sept, H. Bolterauer and H.-J. Limbach -- Structural and functional properties of tubulin isotypes / Qing Lu, Grace D. Moore, Consuelo Walss and Richard F. Ludueña -- Single Myosin molecule mechanics / A.D. Mehta and J.A. Spudich -- Motor proteins have highly correlated brownian engines / G.P. Tsironis and Katja Lindenberg -- Quantum mechanics in cell microtubules: wild imagination or realistic possibility / N.E. Mavromatos and D.V. Nanopoulos.

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