Collections and calls for papers

Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides: Drug Structures, Synthesis, and Effects

The topical collection is dedicated to advancing the academic understanding of cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs). This collection provides a scholarly platform for in-depth exploration of the chemical ...

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Interruption of Amino Acids Supply as Anti-Tumor Strategy

The interruption of amino acids supply has emerged as a promising anti-tumor strategy, with research focusing on the metabolic vulnerabilities of cancer cells. Depletion of essential amino acids necessary fo...

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Open

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09 March 2025

Special Issue: Carnosine

The special issue was composed on the occasion of and written by attendants of the fifth International Congress on Carnosine and Anserine (ICCA) which was held from 12th to 14th of September 2017, at the Dia...

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Special Issue: Cellular, Organoid and Animal Models in Therapeutics

This Special Issue brings together review articles and original research papers on cellular, organoid and animal models in therapeutics.

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Special Issue: Creatine for Life: in Health, Sport and Medicine

This Special Issues brings together reviews and original work stemming from the conference “Creatine in Health, Sport and Medicine” which was held between April 21st and 25th in an old monastery, now a confe...

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Special Issue: Dietary Amino Acids and Intestinal Microbiota

Over the last 10 years, there have been exciting discoveries regarding the important roles of dietary amino acids (e.g., arginine, glutamate, glutamine, glycine, leucine, proline, taurine, or tryptophan, a m...

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Special Issue: Enzyme Inhibitors for Drug Discovery

Enzymes continue to be very important drug targets and new specific enzyme inhibitors are urgently needed for many diseases. We are seeking high-quality original contributions and reviews describing the desi...

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Special Issue: Homoarginine, Arginine and Relatives

This special issue in the journal Amino Acids is devoted to L-homoarginine (hArg), L-arginine (Arg) and their relatives including ADMA and SDMA.

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Special Issue: Polyamines: Biochemical and Pathophysiological Properties

This special issue of Amino Acids brings together 17 peer-reviewed manuscripts that provide the essence of the lectures and posters presented at the 5th International Conference on Polyamines: Biochemical, P...

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Special Issue: Post-translational modifications (PTM)

This special issue of Amino Acids brings together review articles and original research papers on Post-translational modifications (PTMs).

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Special Issue: Proline Metabolism in Cancer

This Special Issue explores how amino acids, especially proline, play a central role in cancer metabolism.

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Special Issue: Software tools and databases for protein science

We are seeking high-quality original contributions and reviews describing novel bioinformatics applications and databases and their application to solving real life problems in modern protein science researc...

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Special Issues: Polyamines and Transglutaminases: Future Perspectives

This Special Issue of Amino Acids brings together 17 peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the essence of the lectures and posters, including subjects of discussion, presented at the International Congress on A...

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