The book series SUBCELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY is a renowned and well recognized forum for disseminating advances of emerging topics in Cell Biology and related subjects. All volumes are edited by established scientists and the individual chapters are written by experts on the relevant topic. The individual chapters of each volume are fully citable and indexed in Medline/Pubmed to ensure maximum visibility of the work. 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 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD R. Bittman, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, USA D. Dasgupt, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India H. Engelhardt, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany A. Holzenburg, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA S. Rottem, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel M. Wyss, DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Basel, Switzerland