Protein Structure, Function and Design
A Special Issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067) belonging to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 747
Editor
Interests: protein structure, function and design; protein engineering; therapeutic proteins; integrative structural determination of target proteins; in silico structure-based prediction; structural biology and biotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Proteins are central to virtually all biological processes, and understanding the intimate relationship between their three-dimensional structure, function and stability remains one of the great challenges of modern molecular life sciences. This Special Issue, “Protein Structure, Function and Design”, aims to gather original research and review articles that explore recent progress in elucidating, predicting and engineering protein structures. We welcome contributions covering experimental and integrative approaches to structure determination, computational and in silico structure-based prediction, molecular dynamics, and protein–ligand and protein–protein interactions, as well as rational protein design and engineering of therapeutic and industrially relevant proteins. By bringing together advances spanning structural biology, biophysics, bioinformatics and biotechnology, this Special Issue seeks to highlight how a deeper understanding of protein architecture can be translated into the design of novel molecules with enhanced function, stability and biomedical or biotechnological applications.
Dr. Tatiana de Arruda Campos Brasil de Souza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- protein structure
- protein function
- protein design
- protein engineering
- structural biology
- computational prediction
- molecular dynamics
- protein-protein interactions
- therapeutic proteins
- structure-function relationship
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