Protein Interaction with Membranes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Functions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 527
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biological membranes are composed of lipids and membrane proteins, which are involved in essential roles in various cellular processes including material transport, signal transduction, energy conversion. Proper interaction between membrane proteins and lipid-bilayer is critical for the transport of membrane proteins to their designated location and assembly of multi-subunit membrane proteins into an active oligomeric conformation. Moreover, the composition of lipids in membrane or physical stress of the lipid-bilayer affect the activity of membrane proteins as observed in mechanosensitive channels. Understanding of the molecular mechanism of the protein–protein as well as protein–lipid interactions within membrane environment is important when studying the structure–function relationship of membrane proteins and their cellular functions in biomembranes. In addition, this information will be crucial for the application of membrane proteins as therapeutic targets, biomarkers or even sensing molecules in biosensors.
This Special Issue will focus on recent studies on protein interaction with membranes including transport of proteins into membranes, protein–protein or protein–lipid bilayer interactions, dynamics of membrane proteins within membranes, membrane proteins in artificial membranes and application of membrane proteins as molecular sensors.
Prof. Dr. Yeon Gyu Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- transport or reconstitution of membrane proteins
- assembly of membrane proteins
- protein–lipid interaction
- dynamic conformation of membrane proteins
- artificial membrane
- membrane proteins as sensor
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