Signaling of Protein Kinases in Development and Disease (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Biology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 1477
Editor
Interests: cell signaling of protein kinases; mechanism of ciliopathy
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Dear Colleagues,
Protein kinases comprise one of the largest and most abundant gene families in humans and play a pivotal role in signal transduction during tissue development, patterning, and homeostasis through the phosphorylation and functional modulation of protein substrates. Both germ-line and somatic mutations in kinase genes have been associated with many human diseases. Protein kinases are the second most targeted group for drug development. Novel therapeutic strategies to target protein kinases and intervene in cell signaling are still limited due to our incomplete understanding of their signaling mechanisms.
This Special Issue welcomes both comprehensive reviews and original articles to highlight the recent progress in the discovery of new mechanisms by which protein kinases function and human mutations disrupt kinase signaling and impact signal transduction.
Dr. John Zheng Fu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- kinase
- phosphorylation
- signaling
- mutation
- mechanism
- development
- inhibitor
- disease
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