Redox-Related Molecules in Biofilm Lifestyles
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Aberrant Oxidation of Biomolecules".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 349
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quinone oxidoreductases; sulfurtransferases; antibiofilm molecules; biofilm; proteomics
Interests: green chemistry; biocatalysis; flow synthesis; polyphenols; biologically active compounds
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biofilms are microbial lifestyles undertaken in the presence of unfavourable or stressful conditions. In this context, biofilms represent sessile protective environments where the processes involved in maintaining redox homeostasis play an important role. Biofilms can be detrimental and are closely correlated with the virulence and tolerance related to the antimicrobial treatments of many pathogens, therefore making them represent a major problem for different relevant fields (e.g., the clinical, agricultural, cosmetic, and food sectors). However, biofilms could also play a beneficial role in nature and could have several advantageous applications, for example, waste and water treatment and plant growth promotion.
In this special issue, we want to collect contributions reporting the knowledge of nature-derived extracts, small molecules and proteins (e.g. enzymes) which can modulate the biofilm formation or its protective environment through redox-related mechanisms either directly or indirectly. We also intend to collect contributions where the potential of redox-related proteins is investigated as a target for the development or identification of antibiofilm agents and biofilm modulators. Moreover, their role in strategies to fight pathogenic or to modulate beneficial biofilms by including mechanistic insights of the action on biofilms would be of great interest to this Special Issue.
Dr. Fabio Forlani
Dr. Francesca Annunziata
Dr. Salvatore Princiotto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- redox-related proteins
- redox homeostasis
- biofilm
- antibiofilm compounds
- biofilm modulators
- bioactives
- mechanistic studies
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