Cytoskeleton Structure and Dynamics in Health and Disease
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules: Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Carbohydrates".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2024) | Viewed by 2482
Special Issue Editors
Interests: regulation of actin dynamics by actin-binding proteins; protein structure and protein-protein interactions; protein engineering; circular dichroism
Interests: single cell mechanics; mechanics of motor and cytoskeletal proteins; mechanics and energetics of motor proteins in vitro and in situ; force spectroscopy; optical tweezers; AFM; confocal microscope; TIRF
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The mechanical properties of a cell are determined by the dynamics of the cytoskeleton and membrane–cytoskeleton associations. These also play a crucial role in cellular shape, morphology changes, and mechanical signal transduction in living cells. Cells are able to contract, move, invade, and undergo processes like tissue regeneration and cellular transformation due to the organization and rearrangement of the cytoskeleton. In this Special Issue of Biomolecules, we invite contributions, in the form of original research articles and reviews, related to the theme “cytoskeleton structure and dynamics in health and disease”.
Articles that focus on functional and structural aspects from cellular or molecular perspectives are particularly welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Structural and functional aspects of cytoskeletal components.
- Cytoskeleton during the development of specialized cellular domains (e.g., axons).
- Cytoskeleton in cell division and cell migration.
- Cytoskeletal changes in cellular transformation and cancer.
- Cytoskeleton in muscle cells.
- Cytoskeleton and mechano-transduction.
Dr. Alla S. S. Kostyukova
Dr. Pasquale Bianco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- actin
- myosin
- cytoskeleton
- membrane-cytoskeleton associations
- mechanotransduction
- cytokinesis
- nuclear cytoskeleton
- contractile systems
- cell motility
- cell morphogenesis
- cell adhesions
- signal transduction
- cytoskeleton structure and dynamics
- microtubules, actin filaments
- intermediate filaments organization
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