The HFSP Journal Publishes A Special Issue On Protein Folding

Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry
Article Date: 04 Dec 2008 - 5:00 PDT

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The HFSP Journal, the new interdisciplinary journal for scientists conducting high quality, innovative research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences is pleased to announce that a special issue focusing on the fundamental process of protein folding approached both experimentally and theoretically is now available online at http://hfspj.aip.org/

This special issue features:

- Perspective review articles by Peter Wolynes from the University of California at San Diego, Victor Munoz from the Spanish Research Council and Jane Clarke from Cambridge University and an article by Koby Levy from the Weizmann Institute in Israel that discuss the physics and biophysics of protein folding

- Perspectives by Mikael Oliveberg from the University of Stockholm, Sweden and by Adriano Aguzzi from the University of Zurich, Switzerland that discuss the relevance of protein folding or misfolding to diseases such as amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease

- Perspectives by Martin Gruebele from the University of Illinois and Edward Engelman from the University of Virginia and Commentaries by Pal Ormos from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Thomas Schneider from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany and that present new experimental advances that have allowed for probing in details of protein structure, folding and dynamics

- Finally, articles by Sophie Jackson from Cambridge University and Lisa Lapidus from Michigan State University describe the folding of the model protein green fluorescent protein GFP and protein L respectively, and an article by Martin Mann from the University of Freiburg, Germany presents a computational model to predict protein folding and three-dimensional structures.

This special issue was Edited by Jose' Onuchic from the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics of the University of California at San Diego.

Protein folding was chosen as the topic of the first special issue of the HFSP Journal as it is a fundamental process which is relevant to most if not all areas of biology and can be approached by techniques from across different fields of research including experimental and theoretical physics, imaging, computational modelling, mathematical modelling, and of course biochemistry and structural biology. The Editors are planning on publishing more special issues focusing on other topics of interdisciplinary research in the future.

http://hfspj.aip.org/

About HFSP Journal

The HFSP Journal is operated by HFSP Publishing, a not-for-profit publisher founded by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), which has been supporting innovative research at the frontiers of biology since its establishment in 1989. The Journal publishes primary research articles as well as commentaries and perspectives which provide an interdisciplinary context to the articles and encourage broader understanding and synthesis of the results. All members of the Editorial Board are actively involved in interdisciplinary research and are dedicated to a truly multidisciplinary review process which will insure that the very best research is published.

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