Novel Methods for Investigating Biomolecular Interactions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2019) | Viewed by 10776
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomechanics; silver nanoparticle antibiotic action; metal ions in epigenetics; bioactive supramolecular systems; 3D printing and biofilms
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Dear Colleagues,
We are currently seeing a new wave of biological techniques to create and study biological assemblies, going to the point that new scientific sub-disciplines are emerging, as is the case of epigenetics. However, whilst the biochemistry, biology, and medical effects of these assemblies are clear, new methods are needed to understand how such assemblies are structured and which interactions dictate the nature of such assemblies.
To this end, in this Special Issue we will look at how technologies are being refined, for example, the way micro-probes are being in crystallography in new combinations of methods; and, for exdample, combining structural methods such as NMR or crystallography with docking calculations to make totally new methods, such as silicon nanotweezer measurement of DNA mechanical properties or lab-on-a-chip TEM for investigating assembly in solution to allow us to study and identify the new processes of assembly created by biologists. One clear example for which papers are particularily welcome is the use of 3D printing in the study of biomolecular and biological processes. Finally, the use of data mining to compile the information present in the literature and analyse trends and correlations previously unseen has potential.
Obviously, the range of the science here is vast, but we do not wish to restrict authors but rather to open up the Special Issue to as wide an audience as possible; short but technical articles putting forward very recent advances in methodologies are especially welcome. However, biological and medical studies that improve our understanding of the interaction processes in biological assemblies are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Anthony William Coleman
Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Molecular interactions
- Epigenetics
- Physical methods
- Spectroscopy
- Microscopy
- Structural analysis
- Structure correlation
- Mechanical properties
- Theoretical methods
- Protein-protein interactions
- Protein-ligand interactions
- DNA-protein interactions
- DNA-ligand interactions
- Cell-ligand interactions
- Data mining
- Novel methods
- Emerging technologies
- 3D printing.
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