Experimental and Computational Methods for Membrane Protein Design
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Composition and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 11502
Special Issue Editors
Interests: membrane proteins; neuroscience; biophysics; biotechnology; bioinformatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Membrane proteins are essential players of life physiology, and are the target of an important number of pharmacological drugs. As membrane proteins are elusive subjects, advances in the understanding of their structure–function relationships have often been accomplished thanks to the development of biochemical and computational methods for protein design.
This Special Issue aims at gathering a series of reviews, methods, communications, and original articles towards understanding the structure, dynamics, and function of membrane proteins where protein design has played some role. Contributions opening the field to new subjects such as membrane protein de novo design, protein engineering, evolution, systems biology, etc. are most welcome. Feel free to extend this invitation to your close collaborators.
Prof. Dr. Alex Perálvarez-Marín
Dr. José Luis Vázquez-Ibar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Membrane proteins
- Biophysics
- Bioinformatics
- Structural biology
- Protein design
- Protein engineering
- Directed evolution.
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