Protein Interactions at the Molecular Scale: From Mechanisms to Applications
A special issue of Biophysica (ISSN 2673-4125).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 1193
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of hydrophobic interactions in proteins is well known; it goes well beyond protein folding and often dominates evolutionary trends in protein functions. Although the most hydrophobic amino acids are known, the collective effects of hydrophobic interactions on protein binding are seldom quantified, even in molecular dynamics simulations.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collate and present experimental and/or theoretical studies of protein–molecule binding that explore the role of protein hydrophobic regions and alternative critical regions.
Dr. James C. Phillips
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrophobicity
- amino acid
- length scale
- interface
- transition
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