The Journal of Molecular Biology provides high quality, comprehensive and broad coverage in all areas of molecular biology. The journal publishes original scientific research papers that provide mechanistic and functional insights and report a significant advance to the field. The journal encourages the submission of multidisciplinary studies that use complementary experimental and computational approaches to address challenging biological questions.Research areas include but are not limited to:Biomolecular interactions, signaling networks, systems biologyCell cycle, cell growth, cell differentiationCell death, autophagyCell signaling and regulationChemical biologyComputational biology, in combination with experimental studiesDNA replication, repair, and recombinationDevelopment, regenerative biology, mechanistic and functional studies of stem cellsEpigenetics, chromatin structure and functionGene expressionMembrane processes, cell surface proteins and cell-cell interactionsMethodological advances, both experimental and theoretical, including databasesMicrobiology, virology, and interactions with the host or environmentMicrobiota mechanistic and functional studiesNuclear organizationPost-translational modifications, proteomicsProcessing and function of biologically important macromolecules and complexesMolecular basis of diseaseRNA processing, structure and functions of non-coding RNAs, transcriptionSorting, spatiotemporal organization, traffickingStructural biologySynthetic biologyTranslation, protein folding, chaperones, protein degradation and quality control

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