Protein Structural Dynamics
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: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 88352
Special Issue Editor
2. Research Center for the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics (RcMcD), Hiroshima University, 1-3-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
Interests: protein structure; protein structural dynamics; intrinsically disordered protein; protein aggregation; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Dear colleagues,
Protein structural dynamics intimately relate to protein functions. High-resolution protein structure, per se, sometimes fails to give a comprehensive view regarding its functional mechanism: crystal structure provides details of the spatial arrangement of the residues engaged in functions, but it does not reveal how they cooperate to carry out their functions due to the lack of insight into the structural dynamics that cause the time-dependent spatial rearrangement of the regulatory residues. Recent progress in the experimental and theoretical approaches has significantly facilitated the research of protein structural dynamics to give newer concepts. The technical advances also expanded the research targets from folded proteins to intrinsically disordered proteins that travel much wider conformational spaces over the folded proteins, which enhances our understanding of protein structural dynamics and function relationships.
The Special Issue “Protein Structural Dynamics” aims to present the contemporary research on protein structural dynamics, which may include original articles covering technical development; experimental reports on some particular proteins, and theoretical researches; and review papers relating to the subjects.
Prof. Dr. Shin-ichi TateGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Protein strutural dynamics
- Enzyme functions
- Intrinsically disordered proteins
- NMR
- Single molecular FRET (fluorecense resonance energy transfer)
- Molecular dynamics simulation
- Coarse grained molecular dynamics simulation
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