The Different Roles of Membrane Proteins: From Signaling to Transport and Beyond
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 272
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biotechnology; yeast fermentation byproducts in a circular economy context; organic acids transport across cellular membranes either in disease context (cancer) or biotechnology applications (yeast)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cell membranes are complex frontiers between cells and the surrounding environment. Although they represent a physical barrier, membranes are also a platform for communication and trading. Here, membrane proteins are playmakers with important functions such as signaling or mediated transport. At a cellular level, these functions regulate cell fate, which make membrane proteins a critical research subject to understand cell biology and develop new solutions in order to modulate cell regulation. In health and disease, this presents a powerful weapon to develop new treatments with improved efficacy and potency. For industrial biotechnology, the study of membrane proteins can lead to the creation of improved cell factories to produce new and old molecules with an environmentally friendly outcome. Knowledge of membrane proteins is a cornerstone in the development of new solutions (whether they are therapeutic drugs, cosmetics, food, or other industrial products) that affect our daily life; thus, it is a subject with a valuable economic impact.
This Special Issue will gather research focusing on the different roles of membrane proteins and their outcomes. The aim is to cover recent advances in the use of membrane proteins (either as targets or as mediators) to develop new biotechnological solutions impacting health and disease, cosmetics, plants and agriculture, industrial processes, and other relevant areas.
Dr. João Azevedo Silva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Membrane research
- Membrane receptor proteins
- Membrane transport proteins
- Biotechnology
- Molecular biology
- Cellular biology
- Biochemistry
