Protein and Nucleotide Engineering for Diagnoses and Biosensing
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 48803
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protein engineering; enzyme engineering; biosensors; biosensing; biomedical engineering; biomolecular engineering
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Interests: protein
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Interests: aptamers; DNA methylation; DNA quadruplex; biosensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development and innovation of methods and devices for monitoring metabolites, biomarkers, and drugs used for medical treatments are strongly dependent on the availability of the molecular recognition elements—the biosensing molecules. These include proteins such as enzymes, antibodies, binding proteins, and receptors; as well as nucleotides such as DNA aptamers, RNA aptamers, and their mimics such as peptide nucleic acids, which specifically recognize and bind to the target molecules. The recent advancements in the technologies for designing and engineering these molecules, together with the varieties of simulations and prediction tools for engineering proteins/nucleotides, are accelerating the development of engineered biosensing molecules for diagnosis and biosensing technologies, which will provide a new vision of future biosensing technologies.
This Special Issue, “Protein and Nucleotide Engineering for Diagnoses and Biosensing”, aims to provide a summary of the field, to explore recent advances in the discovery, design, and engineering of proteins and nucleotides specifically dedicated for diagnoses and biosensing, and to discuss how we are able to acknowledge them for the development of future biosensing technologies. We invite authors to submit original research articles related to any of these aspects. We also welcome review articles which cover the specific topics in this research area.
Prof. Dr. Koji Sode
Dr. Takenori Satomura
Dr. Wataru Yoshida
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- proteins
- enzymes
- antibodies
- binding proteins
- aptamers
- biosensors
- diagnosis
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