Review `this book will be welcomed in labs working on the secretory pathway, as it is the firt such components guide to become available and will help us keep track of all the SECs, VPSs, PEPs and COPs' Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, TIBS, February 1995 `The strength of the book is that it collects a vast amount of published data in a readily accessible form. If you keep getting lost among the thickets of membrane traffic, this guidebook will lead you to safety.' Regis B. Kelly, University of California, San Francisco, Trends in Cell Biology, Vol 5, June 1995 `'...a most convincing approach for rapid and thorough information...The different entries of the catalogues are written by leading specialists in the respective field and they are all impressive in their preciseness, clarity and information density. The volumes shold be present in every biochemical laboratory and other institutions in the field of molecular and cell biology.'' G.Aumuller. Product Description The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a boom in research establishing molecular details related to secretory protein modifications such as signal peptide processing, proenzyme proteolytic maturation, glycosylation, and oligosaccharide modification. This timely new resource compiles what is known about the secretory pathway. The book charts how much of the current progress in the field derives from the development of cell-free systems that reproduce individual transport steps, the identification