Protein–Lipid Interactions: Recent Studies, Perspectives, and Challenges
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2024) | Viewed by 6020
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant innate immunity; plant lipid binding proteins; recombinant expression of proteins; plant allergens; membrane permeability; drug delivery systems
Interests: biophysics of cell and artificial membranes; bioelectrochemistry; physical chemistry of lipids; protein adsorption; self-assembly of complex protein structures; enveloped viruses; electroporation of lipid membranes; antimicrobial peptides; atomic force microscopy; fluorescent microscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to this Special Issue on “Protein–Lipid Interactions: Recent Studies, Perspectives, and Challenges”. Biological membranes are complex heterogeneous systems composed of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Membranes facilitate essential biological functions that are driven by protein–lipid interactions, in a highly dynamic manner. Nevertheless, many questions related to the chemistry and physics of lipids and proteins are still not understood today. The lack of proper understanding of molecular mechanisms important for the functioning of the biological membranes also hinders practical applications in the industries.
This Special Issue aims to analyze and cover a broad spectrum of protein–lipid interactions and present new information in this area of research. Data on the organizational principles of cell membranes, the structure and function of membrane and lipid binding proteins, the mechanistic details of these interactions, and the study of protein–lipid interplay in vital biological functions may be presented.
For this Special Issue of Membranes, authors are invited to present their recent results, and both original papers and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Daria N. Melnikova
Dr. Oleg V. Batishchev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- protein–lipid and protein–ligand interactions
- membrane proteins
- lipid binding proteins
- membrane protein structure–function relationship
- membrane permeability
- membrane transport mechanism
- dynamic molecular processes
- structure modeling
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