Molecular Regulation and Mechanism of Ribonucleoprotein Complexes

Dear Colleagues, 

Ribonucleoprotein сomplexes (RNP) are essential in all cellular life forms: Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryotes and even in non-cellular infectious agents – RNA viruses. Ribonucleoprotein сomplexes consist of ribonucleic acids and RNA-binding proteins. There are huge RNP complexes such as RNA viruses, vault complex, ribosome, spliceosome, heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particles (hnRNP) and smaller ones: telomerase, replicase, RNase P, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases etc. These complexes have important biological roles in replication of RNA viruses, cellular transcription and translation, post-transcriptional and post- translational modification and also regulation of these processes. For the Special Issue "Molecular Regulation and Mechanism of Ribonucleoprotein Complexes" of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences we accept original research manuscripts and reviews highlighting different structural and functional aspects of any ribonucleoprotein сomplex. We are interested the recent advances in the area of structural organization, mechanisms of function, assembly and transport RNPs, and also regulation of processes involving ones. The knowledge and understanding of these fundamental processes is essential for the fight against aging, genetic diseases and antibiotic resistance, for improving anticancer drugs and an antiviral therapy (especially topical for COVID-19).

Dr. Elena A Stolboushkina
Guest Editor

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