Macrolide-Based Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents -
Chemistry and Structure-Activity Relationships .................. 1
B. Pfeiffer, C.N. Kuzniewski, С Wullschleger, and K.-H.
Altmann
The Chemical Synthesis of Discodermolide ....................... 73
I. Paterson and G.J. Florence
The Interaction of Microtubules with Stabilizers
Characterized at Biochemical and Structural Levels ............ 121
J.F. Diaz, J.M. Andreu, and J. Jimenez-Barbero
The Tubulin Binding Mode of MT Stabilizing and
Destabilizing Agents Studied by NMR ........................... 151
Victor M. Sanchez-Pedregal and Christian Griesinger
The Tubulin Binding Mode of Microtubule Stabilizing
Agents Studied by Electron Crystallography .................... 209
James H. Nettles and Kenneth H. Downing
Microtubule-Destabilizing Agents: Structural and
Mechanistic Insights from the Interaction of Colchicine
and Vinblastine with Tubulin .................................. 259
B. Gigant, A. Cormier, A. Dorleans, R.B.G. Ravelli, and
M. Knossow
Molecular Modeling Approaches to Study the Binding Mode
on Tubulin of Microtubule Destabilizing and Stabilizing
Agents ........................................................ 279
Maurizio Botta, Stefano Forli, Matteo Magnani, and
Fabrizio Manetti
Index ......................................................... 329
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