Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance: Insights from Clostridium difficile and the RB Tumor Suppressor

Modern research is increasingly interested in understanding the regulatory mechanisms and diseases through various integrative approaches. Biochemistry and structural biology offer valuable atomic-level insights that help unravel the complexities of cellular regulatory mechanisms and their association with health and disease. The unique advantage of these fields is that they provide ...read more

Protein-based biomaterials have wide variety of therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Important properties of these materials are biocompatibility, biodegradability, functional versatility, and ability to interact with life. They are biodegradable so make sought after targets for environmental applications. These materials are also being investigated for increased applications in water filtration technology ...read more

Protein engineering and design have revolutionized biotechnology, medicine, and industrial applications by enabling the creation of novel proteins with tailored functions. Recent advancements in computational modeling, directed evolution, and synthetic biology have expanded the possibilities for engineering proteins with enhanced stability, specificity, and activity. This special issue will explore state-of-the-art ...read more

Plants are still the major repository of biologically active substances. In the last two decades, however, natural peptides and proteins of plant origin have gained increasing attention due to their pharmacological activities over a variety of human illnesses, including those mediated by infections and parasitosis and those involving different cellular ...read more