New microLife Thematic Issue: Emerging role of chromatin remodeling in the persistence and elimination of microbial pathogens

28-06-2021

There is a new thematic issue for microLife getting started titled “Emerging role of chromatin remodeling in the persistence and elimination of microbial pathogens” so we are calling for papers! The editor for this thematic issue is EAM member Ulrich Dobrindt. 

We increasingly understand how bacteria are able to manipulate host cell functions during infection, or how host cells respond to bacterial pathogens at the transcriptional or protein expression level. However, the changes in chromatin structure that are induced by bacterial infection in host cells and how they regulate host gene expression have so far been insufficiently studied. A deeper understanding of the consequences of bacterial infections at the chromatin remodeling level will help us elucidate infection strategies of pathogenic bacteria on the one hand and defense mechanisms of infected eukaryotes on the other. This special issue aims to present the current state of research in the field of chromatin dynamics in the context of host-bacterium interactions and to highlight common or different mechanisms of chromatin structure modulation that occur in the interplay of different bacterial pathogens with eukaryotes and that could potentially be used as a starting point for improved therapeutic and preventive procedures.

All submitted papers will be subjected to our standard independent peer-review. Authors should specify “Chromatin remodeling” in the cover letter. Accepted papers will be published in the journal as soon as they are available and later collated into a thematic collection alongside strategic topic selections to be prepared by leaders from the respective fields.

microLife is an Open Access journal – we’ll waive the Open Access fees for all authors in this thematic issue.

For guidelines please see the instructions to authors page.

Submission deadline: 1 September 2021

Members of the European Academy of Microbiology receive exclusive Academy Submission route. For more details visit this link.

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