Skin Microbiome and Skin Health: Molecular Interactions
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 139
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Dear Colleagues,
What role do cutaneous microorganisms play in maintaining health or promoting disease states?
The skin microbiota is made up of millions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live on our skin and appendages. Cutaneous microorganisms, such as those in our gut, are crucial in immune system education, natural product breakdown, and defence against invasive infections. Historically, culture-based techniques were used to investigate skin microbial populations. However, as this approach selects microorganisms that thrive in artificial growth conditions, it underestimates the total diversity of the community. To better understand the complexity of the cutaneous microbiota, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of the molecular principles underlying the basic physiological processes, mechanisms, biological functions, and interactions between cutaneous microbiota, interspecies crosstalk, and the host response.
For this Special Issue, we aim to gather recent insights into skin microbial communities, including their composition in health and disease, assembly and ecology, and interactions with the immune system. We welcome the submission of papers exploring prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for microbe-related skin diseases, such as healthy diets, lifestyles, probiotics, and prebiotics. Moreover, we welcome new approaches to modulating and engineering/rebuilding the microbiota and the molecular characterization of commensals and pathogens and their proteomic and/or metabolic signatures, with a special focus on skin microbiota and virota.
Dr. Terenzio Cosio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- skin microbiota
- human disease
- human health
- omics
- microbiota–host interactions
- microbiota manipulation
- microbiota
- virota
- inflammatory diseases
- dysbiosis
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