From Molecular Interactions to Cellular Metabolisms in Drosophila
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 3469
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural substance; analytical biochemistry; microbiology; lipid metabolism
Interests: drosophila; lipid metabolism; development; immunology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The physiological functions of cells or regulation of their development, which are well conserved from invertebrates to vertebrates, are controlled by many molecular and cellular mechanisms. The molecular interactions are essential to understand the function and characterization of protein and/or predict the biological processes.
Currently, some models have been used for over a century as model organisms for investigating molecular interactions, such as yeast, nematode, zebrafish, and the fruit fly. However, Drosophila melanogaster constitutes an excellent experimental model for studying various aspects of biological issues, as many of its biological and physiological properties are conserved with those of mammals, and it exhibits functional homology with nearly 75% of human disease-causing genes. This model is also advantageous as flies are easily genetically manipulated and have a short lifespan. Moreover, established libraries of Drosophila mutants and transgenes, as well as transgenic and reporter lines are available. It also has many characteristics which make it an ideal organism for the study of animal development.
In this Special Issue, we will recruit original articles and reviews that provide novel insights into the molecular interactions/cells metabolism in Drosophila.
Prof. Kaeko Kamei
Dr. Binh Tran Duy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drosophila model
- molecular interaction
- cell metabolism
- development
- cell cycle control
- human disease
