Fuyu Tamanoi is a biochemist who has served on the UCLA School of Medicine and UCLA College faculty since he joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics in 1993. He became a full professor in 1997.

• Part I: Crossing bacterial membranes.Chapter 1: Cotranslational Protein Targeting in Escherichia Coli.Chapter 2: Sec Protein Conducting Channel and SecA.Chapter 3: Targeting of Proteins by the Twin-arginine Translocation (Tat) System in Bacteria and Chloroplasts.Chapter 4: YidC- A Protein with Multiple Functions in Bacterial Membrane Biogenesis. Chapter 5: Disulfide Bond Formation Enzymes.Chapter 6: The Identification of the YaeT Complex and its Role in the Assembly of Bacterial Outer Membrane â-barrel Proteins.Chapter 7: The Function of the ABC transporter LolCDE in Protein Transport to the Outer Membrane of E. coli.Part II: Crossing endoplasmic reticulum membranes.Chapter 8: The Signal Recognition Particle and Its Receptor in ER Protein Targeting.Chapter 9: The Translocation Apparatus of The Endoplasmic Reticulum.Chapter 10: The Role of Bip/Kar2p in the Translocation of Proteins Across the ER Membrane.Chapter 11: Calnexin, Calreticulin and their Associated Oxidoreductase ERp57.Part III: Crossing mitochondrial membranes.Chapter 12: TOM and SAM Machineries in Mitochondrial Protein Import and Outer Membrane Biogenesis.Chapter 13: The Role of the Mia40-Erv1 Disulfide Relay System in Import and Folding of Proteins of the Intermembrane Space of Mitochondria.Chapter 14: The Function of TIM22 in the Insertion of Inner Membrane Proteins in Mitochondria.Chapter 15: The Role of the TIM23 Complex and its Associated Motor Complex (PAM) in Mitochondrial Protein Import.Part IV: Crossing chloroplast membranes.Chapter 16: The Toc Machinery of the Protein Import Apparatus of Chloroplasts.Chapter 17: The Role of the TIC Machinery in Chloroplast Protein Import.Chapter 18: The Sec and Tat Protein Translocation Pathways in Chloroplasts.Chapter 19: Chloroplast SRP/FtsY and Alb3 in Protein Integration into the Thylakoid Membrane.Part V: Crossing peroxisomal membranes.Chapter 20: The Role of Shuttling Targeting Signal Receptors and Heat-shock Proteins in Peroxisomal Matrix Protein Import.Chapter 21: Function of the Ubiquitin-conjugating Enzyme Pex4p and the AAA Peroxin Complex Pex1p/Pex6p in Peroxisomal Matrix Protein Transport.