Understanding the Trafficking of Toxic Metal(loid)s within Cells
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Radioactive Substances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 April 2025 | Viewed by 277
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal toxicity; metal detoxification; hyphenated techniques; mining activities; subcellular metal partitioning; environmental metallomics; aquatic environments; benthic organisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research on the trafficking of toxic metal(loid)s within cells provides new and meaningful insights into the molecular processes underlying the detoxification and, more importantly, the adverse effects of these contaminants. A thorough understanding of how metal(loid)s interact or are stored, as well as how they cause cellular impairments within cells, can foster the development of important tools for better environmental risk assessment. Given the relevance and growing number of studies on these needed topics, we invite you to submit original articles that deal with the behaviour of metal(loid)s, their interaction with cellular components (e.g., organelles, biomolecules, etc.), and the ways they are detoxified, as well as the molecular mechanistic toxicity of metal(loid)s inside living cells.
We welcome research studies focused on metal(loid)s of great environmental interest for aquatic and terrestrial environments, as well as human health and elements known as poor data or emerging contaminants.
Research carried out using cutting-edge approaches, such omics (e.g., genomics, proteomics, metallomics, etc.) applied to experimental and field studies to provide such innovative and timely toxicological insights are also welcomed in this Issue.
Dr. Maikel Rosabal
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gailer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- subcellular toxicity
- metal interactions
- subcellular targets
- molecular toxicity
- organelles
- detoxification
- adverse effects
- aquatic and terrestrial animals
- human models
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