New Perspectives in Protein Structure
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editor
Interests: protein bioinformatics; protein stability; intrinsically disordered proteins; protein structure; protein structure modeling; protein dynamics; molecular dynamics simulation; protein conformation; computational structural biology; structural bioinformatics; drug design; structure based drug design
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, new frontiers have opened in protein structure research. In addition to traditional forms of proteins—such as folded water-soluble proteins, transmembrane- and membrane-associated proteins, and disordered proteins that can fold on the surface of folded proteins or other stable macromolecules—new forms of proteins and protein complexes have emerged.
Among these are fuzzy complexes, in which at least one protein component remains in disordered form during physiological function, and mutual synergistic folding complexes, where two or more disordered proteins assist each other in folding.. Combinations of these protein types, such as partially disordered proteins and proteins participating in liquid–liquid phase separation, also represent new forms of proteins. These discoveries open new and exciting avenues in protein structure research.
As the Guest Editors of this Special Issue of IJMS titled “New Perspectives in Protein Structure”, we warmly invite you to contribute a paper related to advances in protein structure research.
Volume I of the Special Issue: “Protein Structure Research”
Volume II of the Special Issue: “Protein Structure Research 2024”
Dr. Csaba Magyar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- stability of protein complexes structural
- background of protein function
- allosteric regulation of proteins
- fuzzy complexes
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- liquid-liquid phase separation
- mutual synergistic folding
- protein folding
- protein structure
- protein-protein interactions
- transmembrane proteins
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Related Special Issues
- Protein Structure Research in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (11 articles)
- Protein Structure Research 2024 in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (9 articles)
