Fungi Nutrient Transportation 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

Nutrient sensing and transport across biological membranes is a vital process for cell homeostasis and long-term survival. Unravelling the molecular mechanisms underlying the control of solutes across biological membranes is an important focus of fundamental and applied research. Membrane nutrient transporters are involved in cell nutrition, signaling, stress response, and drug sensitivity. These features make fungal-specific transporters ideal to use as specific targets or gateways for drugs against prominent fungal pathogens (e.g., Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus). Nutrient transporters are also important targets in the development and improvement of cell factories towards the biotechnological generation of value-added products. This Special Issue will focus on the transport of nutrients in fungal species, including the functional characterization of transport systems, transporter kinetics and energetics, signaling, expression, trafficking and regulation, structure–function analysis, transporter engineering, and phylogenetic classification.

Prof. Dr. Margarida Casal
Dr. Sandra Paiva
Dr. Isabel Soares-Silva
Guest Editors

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