Determination and Regulation of Membrane Protein Topology
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Composition and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 189
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As you may all know, about 20–30% of genomes from various classes of organisms encode for transmembrane proteins. Unlike soluble proteins, different segments of transmembrane proteins are exposed to a distinctive environment. Thus, the topology of transmembrane proteins, which depicts how they are oriented across membranes, is uniquely important for this class of proteins. It has been assumed that transmembrane proteins usually adopt a fixed topology. However, recent studies demonstrate that some transmembrane proteins could adopt more than one topology, and topological alteration appears to be a previously unrecognized mechanism to regulate transmembrane proteins. This Special Issue brings an update about the current progresses on this topic, and discusses the challenges of solving the problem, owing to a limitation in current approaches to determine the topology of transmembrane proteins. Original research and review papers are both welcome.
Dr. Jin Ye
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- transmembrane proteins
- topology
- protein membrane translocation
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