Bacterial Cell Envelope Biosynthesis

Dear Colleagues,

As you might have noticed, the International Journal of Molecular Science is publishing more and more manuscripts on bacterial morphogenesis and bacteriology. The importance of bacterial species diversity for the wellbeing and health of the world ‘s ecosystems, including its human inhabitants, is by now clearly established. Consequently, the notion that the range of bacterial species whose morphogenesis is investigated at a molecular level needs to be expanded beyond the canonical Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis is gaining momentum in our community. In addition, it is becoming more and more clear that the regulation of envelope growth and division is very complex and that the involved protein complexes are not isolated entities, but part of communicating networks. The most successful antibiotics that apparently just inhibited the activity of a single protein type, appear to affect usually multiple process upon closer inspection. Limiting our knowledge to one aspect of morphogenesis (i.e., peptidoglycan syntheses) is no longer possible without knowledge on the other cross-talking processes. The development of successful antibiotics and antibiotic screening assays will benefit from molecular knowledge of this cross-talking. To illustrate these developments, I would like to collect manuscripts for a Special Issue on bacterial morphogenesis that encompasses multiple bacterial species and any process that is related to bacterial growth and division on a molecular level.

The publication procedure of IJMS is simpler than for most other journals. Simply paste your text into the journal's formatted file and the paper is ready for review and, if accepted, publication. As an editor of the journal, I make sure that each paper in my care is thoroughly reviewed by two reviewers and, in case of doubt, a third reviewer is invited. The journal has the DOAJ Seal (The DOAJ Seal is awarded to journals that demonstrate best practice in open access publishing. Around 10% of journals indexed in DOAJ have been awarded the Seal.)

The impact factor of IJMS is 5.9 at present.

I hope that you will be inspired to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Tanneke Den Blaauwen
Guest Editor

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