Sarcomere Function in Health and Disease 2.0: New Insights from Traditional to Advanced Animal-Free Studies
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 1810
Special Issue Editor
Interests: myosin; actomyosin; gelsolin; contracting muscle; enzyme kinetics; myosin mitochondrial transport; protein expression and purification; single molecule biophysics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are launching a Special Issue focusing on muscle cell contractility. Indeed, one very important function of muscle cells is producing a force sufficient to allow for contraction. Such contraction requires the coordinated action of well-structured proteins named sarcomeric proteins.
As the exact function of these sarcomeric proteins (and how they interact with neighbouring molecules) to allow for muscle cell contraction is only partially known, we seek original research papers and review articles on this topic. We also hope to receive articles that better explain how these sarcomeric proteins can be dysfunctional in the context of muscle diseases.
Dr. Marko Usaj
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- myosin
- actin
- titin
- z-disc
- m-line
- skeletal muscle
- heart
- contraction
- myopathy
- muscular dystrophy
