Protein Networks and Their Signaling
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1519
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cellular and molecular biology; epigenetics; protein biochemistry and structural biology
Interests: protein physics; protein folding; protein misfolding; intrinsically disordered proteins; protein function; protein interactions
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Dear Colleagues,
The physiological functions in multicellular organisms are regulated by a network of biomolecules and their signaling. One such biomolecule is protein, and it has been found that protein–protein interactions, protein signaling, chromatin (protein–DNA associations), and epigenetic marks are critical to a number of cellular processes to regulate the normal vs. disease state of the organism.
Therefore, it is crucial to explore such networking, their signaling, and regulatory mechanisms in healthy and disease conditions. The in-depth molecular, biochemical, and structural understanding of the proteins and their signaling networks can be utilized to develop better therapeutics to overcome the disease state.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to advance or update our understanding in the field of protein biochemistry, protein–protein interactions, protein–DNA interactions, biomolecules (DNA, RNA), or any other epigenetic factors (PTMs, etc.) which regulate cellular processes by sharing their scientific work. We hope to include work in the area of diseases like osteoarthritis, lung pathology, cancer, autoimmune disease, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and neuropathology, but the scope of the Special Issue is not limited to these topics.
Dr. Ashok Kumar
Prof. Dr. Vladimir N. Uversky
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- protein-protein interaction
- chromatin/nucleosome
- signaling
- protein structure
- drug design
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