New Insights of Fungal and Plant Lipids: Structural Diversity, Metabolism and Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 2259
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lipidomics; glycerolipids; sphingolipids; sterols; triterpenes; metabolomics; fungal and plant lipid metabolism; GC-MS; LC-ESI-MS/MS; MALDI
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fungal and plant lipids are of great interest because they are a source of essential fatty acids in the human diet and can be applied in many other fields of life, such as the production of biodiesel and medicines. Lipids are highly diverse biomolecules that may act as membrane constituents, signaling molecules, and effectors of protein structure and function. Along with the increased knowledge on fungal and plant lipid metabolism, there has been an accumulation of data on the structural diversity, specific distribution, genetic basis, and regulation of metabolic pathways.
The objective of this Special Issue is to bring together relevant international researchers from the field of fungal and plant lipids. We welcome submissions of original research articles and reviews addressing the recent advancements of the diverse applications of lipidomics and classical labelling techniques to obtain new insights into lipid metabolism. Topics welcomed for this Special Issue include the structural diversity of lipids (glycerolipids, sphingolipids, sterols, waxes, oxylipins, etc.), lipid metabolism (label-free lipidomics, stable isotope labelling, and visualization-based approaches, such as mass spectrometry imaging), lipids in development and stress responses, and fungal and plant lipids in human health.
This Special Issue is supervised by Dr. Ekaterina R. Kotlova and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Svetlana V. Senik (Laboratory of Fungal Biochemistry, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences). We also wish to dedicate this issue to the memory of Dr. Natalia F. Sinyutina, a pioneer in the study of plant lipid metabolism pathways in the 1980s and 1990s, who passed away on January 4, 2023.
Dr. Ekaterina Kotlova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lipidomics
- fatty acids
- glycerolipids
- sphingolipids
- sterols
- oxylipins
- fungal and plant lipid metabolism