Zinc Signaling in Physiology and Pathogenesis
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioinorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2017) | Viewed by 173233
Special Issue Editors
Interests: zinc signaling; Slc39a/ZIP and Slc30a/ZnT zinc transporters; signal transduction; physiology; disease
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Interests: zinc transporter; zinc metabolism; cellular biochemistry; metal enzymes; metal biology; absorption of essential trace elements; nutrient deficiency (Fe, Zn, Cu)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The essential trace element zinc plays indispensable roles in multiple cellular processes. It regulates a great number of protein functions, including transcription factors, enzymes, adapters, and growth factors as a structural and/or catalytic factor. Recent studies have highlighted another function of zinc as an intra- and intercellular signaling mediator, which became recognized as the “zinc signal”. Indeed, zinc regulates cellular signaling pathways, which enable conversion of extracellular stimuli to intracellular signals, and controls various intracellular and extracellular events, and thus zinc mediates communication between cells. The zinc signal is essential for physiology, and its dysregulation causes a variety of diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, dermatitis, and dementia.
This Special Issue focuses on crucial roles of zinc signaling in biological processes in molecular and physiological basis, addressing the future directions and questions underlying this unique phenomenon. Because there is growing interest and attention in physiopathological contribution of zinc signal, we believe this Special Issue will provide very timely information on it and thus should appeal to a wide range of readers.
The International Society for Zinc Biology Conference 2017 (ISZB-2017, http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/iszb-meeting-zino-net.php) will be held at Cyprus in 18-22 June 2017. All attendees presenting a paper at this conference are welcome to submit a manuscript for publication (Deadline: 30 September 2017). For further information, please contact the Editorial Office ([email protected] or [email protected]).
Prof. Dr. Toshiyuki Fukada (ISZB board member)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Taiho Kambe (ISZB Secretary)
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Zinc signal
- Zinc biology
- Zinc transporters
- Metallothionein
- receptors and channels
- physiology
- disease
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