1. VacuolarH+-ATPase assembly / Anne M. Smardon and Patricia M. Kane -- 2. Structure of prokaryotic V-Type ATPase/Synthase / Ken Yokoyama and Jun-ichi Kishikawa -- 3. The function of V-ATPase in the degradation of gluconeogenic enzymes in yeast vacuoles / Jingjing Liu and Hui-Ling Chiang -- 4. The role of vacuolar ATPase in the Regulation of Npt2a trafficking / Eleanor Lederer and Syed Jalal Khundmiri -- 5. Cytosolic pH regulated by glucose promotes V-ATPase assembly / Reinhard Dechant and Matthias Peter -- 6. VacuolarH+-ATPase (V-ATPase) activated by glucose : a possible link to diabetes / Suguru Nakamura -- 7. Vacuolar proton pump (V-ATPase) and insulin secretion / Ge-Hong Sun-Wada and Yoh Wada -- 8. Role of V-ATPase, Cytohesin-2/Arf6, and aldolase in regulation of endocytosis : implications for diabetic nephropathy / Vladimir Marshansky -- 9. Kidney vacuolar H+-ATPase regulation / Patricia Valles and Daniel Batlle -- 10. Long-term regulation of vacuolar H+-ATPase by angiotensin II in proximal tubule cells / Luciene Regina Carraro-Lacroix, Thaissa Dantas Pessoa, and Gerhard Malnic -- 11. Vacuolar H+-ATPase in distal renal tubular acidosis and diabetes / Irfan Shukrullah, Patricia Valles, and Daniel Batlle -- 12. Vacuolar H+-ATPase in cancer and diabetes / Souad R. Sennoune and Raul Martinez-Zaguilan -- 13. The a2 isoform of vacuolar ATPase and cancer-related inflammation / Kenneth Beaman, Christina Kwong, Mukesh Jaiswal, and Alice Gilman-Sachs -- 14. V-ATPases in oral squamous cell carcinoma / Mario Perez-Sayans Garcia and Abel Garcia Garcia -- 15. Vacuolar H+-ATPase : functional mechanism and potential as a target for cancer chemotherapy / Hiroto Izumi and Kimitoshi Kohno -- 16. V-ATPase maintains neural stem cells in the developing mouse cortex / Christian Lange, Silvia Prenninger, Philip Knuckles, Verdon Taylor, Michael Levin, and Federico Calegari -- 17. The relationship between glucose-induced calcium signaling and activation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in saccharomyces cerevisiae cells / Rogelio Lopes Brand�o.