Special Issue "Microbial Metabolomics"
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology and Ecological Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2013) | Viewed by 42397
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microbial fermentation; metabolic modeling; metabolomics; systems biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the last decade significant progress has been made in the field of quantitative as well as stable isotope based microbial metabolomics, not only with respect to the optimization and validation of sampling, quenching and sample processing methods, but also the improvement of MS based analytics, data processing and mathematical modelling. Next to a further increase of the portfolio of small molecules to be quantified and improvement of the sensitivity and selectivity, is the application of metabolomics to answer intriguing biological questions. Apart from aiming at obtaining a better understanding of the physiology and metabolic regulation of microorganisms in general, these could be focused on the heterogeneity of individuals in clonal populations, cell cycle processes, cell to cell communication, the role of the individual members of microbial communities, compartmentation of metabolic pathways in eukaryotic microbes, solute transport across cellular membranes and so on. This might require the quantification of metabolites in individual cellular compartments and/or in individual cells, which are still big challenges.
This special issue of Metabolites will be dedicated not only to the development of new and the improvement of existing microbial metabolomics techniques, but also to the application of these techniques to tackle intriguing biological questions, thereby integrating metabolomics with other omics data and applying modelling approaches to gain insight in the overwhelming diversity of microbial metabolism, both from a fundamental as well as an applied point of view.
Dr. Walter M. van Gulik
Guest Editor
Submission
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- quantitative metabolomics
- stable isotopes
- data processing
- data integration
- metabolic modelling
- compartmentation
- membrane transport
- metabolic regulation
- cell cycle
- heterogeneity
- microbial communities
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