Recent Advances in Transthyretin Evolution, Structure and Biological Functions

1. Mechanisms of Molecular Recognition: Structural Characteristics of Transthyretin Ligand Interactions
Vivian Cody, Andrzej Wojtczak

2. TTR Synthesis During Development and Evolution: What the Marsupials Revealed
Samantha J. Richardson

3. Evolution of Transthyretin Gene Structure
Porntip Prapunpoj

4. Evolutionary Insights from Fish Transthyretin
Deborah M. Power, Isabel Morgado, João C. R. Cardoso

5. The Salmonella sp. TLP: A Periplasmic 5-Hydroxyisourate Hydrolase
Sarah Hennebry

6. Vertebrate HIU hydrolase: Identification, Function, Structure, and Evolutionary Relationship with Transthyretin
Giuseppe Zanotti, Ileana Ramazzina, Laura Cendron, Claudia Folli, Riccardo Percudani, Rodolfo Berni

7. Transthyretin-Related and Transthyretin-like Proteins
A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Anna Linusson, Erik Lundberg

8. The Transthyretin–Retinol-Binding Protein Complex
Hugo L. Monaco

9. TTR and RBP: Implications in Fish Physiology
Sancia Gaetani, Diana Bellovino

10. TTR and Endocrine Disruptors
Kiyoshi Yamauchi, Akinori Ishihara

11. Genetics: Clinical Implications of TTR Amyloidosis
Merrill D Benson

12. Molecular Pathogenesis Associated with Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy
Maria João Saraiva

13. Histidine 31: The Achilles' Heel of Human Transthyretin. Microheterogeneity is Not Enough to Understand the Molecular Causes of Amyloidogenicity
Klaus Altland, Samantha J. Richardson

14. New Therapeutic Approaches for Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy (FAP)
Yukio Ando, Masaaki Nakamura, Mistuharu Ueda, Hirofumi Jono

15. Liver Transplantation for Transthyretin Amyloidosis
Bo-Göran Ericzon, Erik Lundgren, Ole B. Suhr

16. Mouse Models of Transthyretin Amyloidosis
Sadahiro Ito, Shuichiro Maeda

17. What Have We Learned from TTR-Null Mice: Novel Functions for TTR?
João Carlos Sousa, Joana Almeida Palha

18. Transthyretin Null Mice: Developmental Phenotypes
Julie A. Monk, Samantha J. Richardson

19. TTR Null Mice as a Model to Study the Involvement of TTR in Neurobiology: From Neuropeptide Processing to Nerve Regeneration
Carolina Estima Fleming, Ana Filipa Nunes, Márcia Almeida Liz, Mónica Mendes Sousa

20. Plasma Transthyretin Reflects the Fluctuations of Lean Body Mass in Health and Disease
Yves Ingenbleek

21. Erratum to
Sancia Gaetani, Diana Bellovino

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