Cellular Homeostasis and Quality Control
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Microenvironment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 444
Special Issue Editors
Interests: membrane homeostasis; lipid droplet biogenesis; lipid transport; sterol export; CAP proteins; fatty acid transport
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The functioning of cells, as individual units or as components of complex tissue systems, rely on the maintenance of a steady and balanced physiological state. Such a state of homeostasis is enabled by a range of quality control mechanisms, responding to both internal as well as environmental changes that may disrupt optimal function. Cellular quality control ensures that subcellular components such as proteins are regulated at the level of synthesis, degradation as well as their precise localization. Similarly, cells regulate the uptake, synthesis and subcellular distribution of lipids and metabolites, allowing them to adapt to changing environments and respond to stress and damage. Achieving quality control also requires coordination between organelles performing diverse specialized functions. Thus, the maintenance of cellular homeostasis depends on a network of self-regulating feedback-controlled pathways and the failure of quality control mechanisms underlie numerous diseases afflicting millions of people worldwide. These include cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, to name a few.
We invite original research articles, reviews, as well as short perspective articles for a special issue on Cellular Homeostasis and Quality Control focusing on the following key areas:
- Protein quality control: From chaperones to ubiquitin proteasome system to autophagy
- Protein trafficking defects and human disease
- Mitochondrial dysfunction and quality control
- Lysosomal storage disorders
- Cellular quality control and aging
In particular, submissions focusing on the failure of quality control pathways in relation to development and progression of human disease are particularly encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Roger Schneiter
Dr. Madhuja Samaddar
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- cellular homeostasis
- protein trafficking and quality control
- mitochondrial dysfunction
- lysosomal storage disorders
- neurodegeration
- aging
