Mechanistic Insights into Protein Dynamics: Membrane Interactions, Phase Separation, and Disease-Linked Aggregation
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Biology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 53
Special Issue Editor
Interests: virtual screening; drug discovery; small molecular inhibitors against intrinsic disorder proteins; phase separation and aggregation; ionotropic glutamate receptors channel; membrane-protein association
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Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to participate in our upcoming Special Issue of Biomedicines, titled "Mechanistic Insights into Protein Dynamics: Membrane Interactions, Phase Separation, and Disease-Linked Aggregation".
This Special Issue will examine innovative findings on protein dynamics, focusing on membrane-mediated interactions, the mechanisms behind liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS), and the pathological aggregation linked to diseases. This is an exciting opportunity to share your insights and research findings with a broad audience interested in the dynamic behavior of proteins and their implications in biological systems. Your contributions will help shape our understanding of protein interactions, phase separation, and disease-related aggregation, and this Special Issue will represent a valuable resource for researchers in this field.
This Special Issue will provide mechanistic insights into these topics through original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and short communications.
We invite contributions addressing the following topics:
- Membrane-mediated protein interactions and their functional implications;
- Mechanisms behind protein phase separation in health and disease;
- Structural dynamics of aggregate-prone proteins in neurodegeneration;
- Advances in experimental methods for studying protein dynamics;
- Computational approaches to model protein conformational changes and interactions.
This Special Issue will provide an excellent platform for researchers to showcase their work to a broad scientific audience interested in structural biology, biophysics, and the molecular mechanisms underlying disease. We believe that your expertise in this field will represent a valuable contribution to the Special Issue.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or require further information regarding submission guidelines or deadlines. We look forward to your participation in this exciting endeavor.
Dr. Ramesh Prasad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- protein conformational dynamics
- membrane-mediated interactions
- liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS)
- neurodegenerative protein aggregation
- structural biology techniques
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