Call for Papers: Special Issue “Amino Acid Metabolism in Human Health and Disease”

Journal: Biochemistry (Moscow) Vol. 89, Issue 10, 2024

Special Issue: Amino Acid Metabolism in Human Health and Disease

Special Issue Editor: Victoria I. Bunik, Vadim S. Pokrovsky

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2024

Dear colleagues,

Amino acids are not only building blocks for proteins, but also essential components in various biosynthetic and signaling pathways. Multiple studies focus on metabolism of amino acids in cancer and other human diseases. The amino-acids-degrading enzymes undergo preclinical and clinical evaluation as anticancer approaches. The on-going drug design solves the problem of directed regulation of metabolic pathways involving amino acids.

This special issue is dedicated to address all these topics. We invite you to submit papers concerning modulation of metabolism of amino acids in the medical, pharmaceutical or related context. Particularly welcome are studies involving amino-acid-degrading enzymes, inhibitors/enhancers of amino acid metabolism, as well as nutritional studies where dietary restrictions or supplementation of amino acids are employed for cancer therapy or address genetic diseases. Reports on novel approaches to regulate the amino acid metabolism for changing pathological metabolic phenotypes in cancer and neurological diseases are appreciated.

Manuscripts should be submitted through the Editorial Publishing System at https://publish.sciencejournals.ru/journal-detail/BCM?lang=en/.

Before submitting a manuscript, please read the Instructions for authors at https://biochemistrymoscow.com/en/authors/.

When submitting your manuscript, please specify in your cover letter that your paper is a contribution for the Special Issue entitled “Amino Acid Metabolism in Human Health and Disease”.

Keywords: metabolism of amino acids, mechanism of action of anticancer drugs, glutamine addiction, gamma-amidase, lysine oxidase, asparaginas.

Dr. Victoria I. Bunik, Dr. Vadim S. Pokrovsky

Guest Editors

Dr. Victoria I. Bunik, PhD, Dr. Sci

Leading scientist of Belozersky Institute of Physicochemical Biology

Professor of Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Moscow Lomonosov State University

Professor of Sechenov University

Moscow 119991

Russia

e-mail: bunik@belozersky.msu.ru

Research interests: neurochemistry, cancer, metabolic control, protein-protein interactions, supramolecular structures, cellullar compartmentation

Dr. Vadim S. Pokrovsky, PhD, Dr. Sci

Affiliations:

N.N. Blokhin Medical Research Center of Oncology, Moscow, Russia

People’s Friendship University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: v.pokrovsky@ronc.ru

Research interests: anticancer agents; cancer metabolism; preclinical evaluation of anticancer drugs; animal models of cancer; new targets for cancer therapy